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Tanaka-San Will Not Do Calisthenics (2008)

07 May

75m; Australia

Director: Maree Delofski

Synopsis: This striking film shows the struggle of Japanese Oki Electric Manufacturing worker and singer Tetsuro Tanaka. Tanaka refused to accept the militarization of his job through calisthenics and the mind control of the company. As result, he is harassed and fired by the company. Rather than giving up, he decides to sing every day in front of the factory. He has continued this battle for 28 years, and in the process, has exposed the nature of this corporate management system. Tanaka has been to LaborFest before, and his music continues to ring out. His words “Never import the corporate fascism of Japan!” continue to have meaning.

Contact: http://www.tanakafilm.com http://www.din.or.jp/~okidentt/eigohome.htm http://unionsong.com/u218.html

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Manufacturing, Organizing, Technology

 

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Rising Son (1990)

26 Apr

92m; U.S.

Director: John David Coles

Cast: Brian Dennehy, Piper Laurie and Graham Beckel

Synopsis (IMDB): A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father’s unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

RopeWalk: A Cordage Engineer’s Journey Through History (2008)

26 Apr

57m; U.S.

Director: Steve Fetsch

Synopsis: Prehistoric tools, Ben Franklin, trust busting, railroads, drug laws, plastics, nanotubes and space travel? What ties these things together in a movie? Rope, of course!

Contact: athensmovie@yahoo.com 740-594-7848 (Private)

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Manufacturing

 

The Night Before the Strike (1990)

20 Apr

105m; South Korea

Director: Chang Yoon-Hyun, Eun Lee, Dong-hong Jang, Jae-kyu Lee

Cast: Su-chang Kong, Kyeong-cheol Min, Eun-chae Kim

Synopsis (www.//koreafilm.org): Dongseong Metal employs over 200 impecunious workers at its production plant. One day, a new worker named Ju Wan-ik joins the Forging Team, and the team members welcome him with drinks and good cheer. Han-su, who is also a member of the Forging Team, longs to shake off the insufferable shackles of poverty. His dream, which he is determined to realize, is to work hard, save, and become rich someday. But to the management, the workers are mere machines that are unfortunately prone to breakage. Director Kim meticulously lays down his plans against the impending unionization of his laborers, and Han-su is recruited by his manager to stand on the side of the company.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Number One (2009)

20 Apr

86m; Morocco

Director: Zakia Tahiri

Cast: Aziz Saâdallah, Nezha Rahile and Chantal Ladesou

Synopsis: A Moroccan comedy about a grumpy, cruel factory manager whose outlook on life changes when his wife slips him a potion that renders him sympathetic toward everyone he meets.

Contact: Cinexport T: +33 1 45 62 49 45 E: cinexport@wanadoo.fr

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Manufacturing, Women

 

The Pajama Game (1957)

20 Apr

101m; U.S.

Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen

Cast: Doris Day, John Raitt and Carol Haney

Synopsis (IMDB): Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won’t take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Manufacturing, Musical, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

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People at Work: How Jobs Change (1976)

20 Apr

12m; U.S.

Director: Coronet Instructional Media

Synopsis: Changes in jobs and job skill requirements as mechanization pervades the workplace

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Automation, Documentary, Manufacturing

 

Philips-Radio (1931) (aka The Symphonie Industrielle)

20 Apr

Director: Joris Ivens
36m

Country: Netherlands

An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower begins a more complex tube used in radio broadcasting; it is then turned, fired, and sculpted. Conveyors carry partially completed units. Workers perform their various specific assembly-line tasks. Cases are manufactured and machined, wire harnesses are assembled, loudspeakers are produced. As radios near completion, they are run through a series of tests. Engineers and draughtsmen define future developments. In a closing stop-motion sequence, in a style reminiscent of Norman McLaren, a group of loudspeakers performs a playful dance. The film overall is a poetic depiction of an industrial process.Written by David Carless (IMDB)

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Automation, Communications, Documentary, Manufacturing, Technology

 

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Pilebutts, Working Under the Hammer

20 Apr

Synopsis: history of pile butts

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Manufacturing

 

Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (2009)

20 Apr

52m; U.S.

Director: Renée Bergan and Mark Schuller

Cast: Marie-Jeanne Solange Frisline Thérèse Hélène

Synopsis: The compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers give the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of education, and poor health care. While the film offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance demonstrates these are global struggles. Finally, through their collective activism, these women demonstrate that despite monumental obstacles in a poor country like Haiti, collective action makes change possible.

Contact: TÈT ANSANM PRODUCTIONS 139 Clinton Ave. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11205 347-599-1116 (phone/fax) info@potomitan.net

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Politics, Women, Working Class

 
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