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Black Thursday (CZARNY CZWARTEK)

03 Feb

by Antoni Krauze (Poland) –  contemporary take on the tragic events when Gdansk shipyard workers were killed by police during strike of December 1970 – got a FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition) award at 37th Montreal World Film Festival.

Still a painfully remembered event, the brutally suppressed shipyard strikes of December 1970 get a stirring, street-level dramatization from Antoni Krauze that focuses on the tragic story of Brunon Drywa and family. When protests spread among coastal towns, troops in Gdynia responded by firing on people on their way to work; the victims would include Drywa, who was shot in the back. Filming on historic locations in Gdynia, Krauze forcefully brings to the screen a rarely depicted yet pivotal chapter in Polish history.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Ann Kore Moun – Collective Action: A Force For Development

03 Feb

(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min) Unions in many sectors of Haitian society and their role in economic development.
http://www.productionsbonsai.com

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Blacks, Children, Cities-Urban, Class, Documentary, Genre, Global Economy, Labor History, Themes, Women, Working Class

 

Der Stuhl (The Chair)

03 Feb

(Daniel Martín Gómez, 2013, 14 min) Two women job seekers who emigrated to Germany, from different ends of Spain and two generations facing two very different ways of emigrating.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2014 in Cities-Urban, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Themes, Women, Working Class

 

Maestra (2011)

15 Jan

Explores the experience of eight women who, as young girls, taught on the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.The film begins in 1961, when Cuba announced that they would eradicate illiteracy in one year. Over 250,000 citizens volunteered. Interviews, recorded testimonials, and powerful archival footage tell this story. The teachers lived with the families they taught, working alongside them in the fields during the day & teaching classes (often by lantern) at night. In the midst of the campaign, the Bay of Pigs was invaded, and in spite of the dangers and difficulties, their eyes sparkle as they share their stories and each of them insists this was the most important thing they had ever done.

Directed by: Catherine Murphy
catherine@theliteracyproject.org

http://www.maestrathefilm.org/

http://www.wmm.com

 
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Posted by on January 15, 2014 in Documentary, Education, Education, Labor History, Women

 

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

03 Jan

 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Documentary, Labor History, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Textile Industry, Women, Working Class

 

The Lithuanian Jungle – Upton Sinclair-inspired Documentary

03 Jan

Trailer for “The Lithuanian Jungle”, the documentary feature film from Storytellers International coming in 2011. The film is based on the characters in the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Filmed on location in Chicago and told in a investigative journalism style by filmmakers Randy Richards, Giedrius Subacius and Risé Sanders, this documentary reveals the unknown characters behind the literary classic.

 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Working Class

 

Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike

03 Jan

Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike

 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Available Online, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892

03 Jan
 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Available Online, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day

03 Jan

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-z8ud_9QU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkEl9XzjFc

 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

The Inquiry (2013)

03 Jan

A reconstruction of the Askwith Inquiry, which took place during the 1913 Lock-out in Ireland. It was set up by the British government, supposedly to investigate the origins of the dispute, to resolve the grievances of workers and employers, and to end the strike. William Martin Murphy represented the employers’ side, with Jim Larkin and James Connolly speaking for the workers. The film follows the course of the negotiations and includes Connolly’s famous “Statement of the Workers’ Case.” Askwith reported that the workers had significant grievances, but the employers rejected the inquiry’s recommendations. ¦ Written by Turlough Kelly; directed by Brian Gray. Presented in association with Dublin Community Television.

For full details see link;
http://www.progressivefilmclub.ie/

 
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Posted by on January 3, 2014 in Documentary, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 
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