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Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

20 Apr

80m; U.S./China

Director: Jennifer Baichwal

Synopsis (IMDB): Jennifer Baichwal’s cameras follow Edward Burtynsky (1955- ) as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling. In China, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors. A woman assembles a circuit breaker, and women and children are seen picking through debris or playing in it. Burtynsky concludes with a visit to Shanghai, the world’s fastest growing city, where wealth and poverty, high-rises and old neighborhoods are side by side.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Working Class

 

Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (1999)

20 Apr

55m; Mexico

Director: Saul Landau & Sonia Augulo

Synopsis: Shows the real lives of workers who work in the Maquiladora’s. The Maquilas were sold to the Mexican workers as the solution to the problem of unemployment yet the maquilas have turned intoa disaster for Mexico.

Contact: http://saullandau.com/movies.html

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

Maquilapolis (2006)

20 Apr

U.S./Mexico
Director: Vicky Funari
http://www.maquilapolis.com/project_eng.htm

Synopsis: Maquiladoras, women’s issues

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Women

 

Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)

20 Apr

72m;

Director: David Redmon

Synopsis (IMDB): This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Global Economy

 

Memoir of a Plunder

20 Apr

Fernando Solas

Synopsis: Neoliberal globalization

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

The Men Who Would Conquer China (2004)

20 Apr

58m; US
Directors: Nick Torrens and Jane St. Vincent Welch

For 4,000 years China largely succeeded, both culturally and economically, in keeping the rest of the world at bay. Following its introduction of reforms in the 1980’s, however, including a transition from a socialist to a market economy, China allowed multinational corporations to set up shop. Now that the world’s most populous nation is clearly on a fast track to capitalism, American investors are eagerly exploring ways to exploit China’s new ‘economic miracle.’

Icarus Films

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Global Economy

 

Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti: Walt Disney and the Science of Exploitation (1996)

20 Apr

U.S.

Director: National Labor Committee

Synopsis: An exposé on how Disney treats its workers in Haiti.

Contact: View the documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OXhtgHBxk

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Service Workers, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

Mitumba: The Second Hand Road (2005)

20 Apr

53m; Italy

Director: Rafaelle Brunetti

Contact: The story of a t-shirt and its journey from the north to the south of the world, told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy

 

Mondovino (2004)

20 Apr

135m; Belguim

Director: Jonathan Nossiter

Synopsis (IMDB): A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world’s different wine regions.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Global Economy

 

Moonlighting (1982)

20 Apr

97m; U.K.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast:  Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski and Jirí Stanislav

Synopsis (IMDB): A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Global Economy, Migrant workers, Working Class

 
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