58m; U.S.
Director: Sylvia Morales
Chronicles the achievements of five Latina/Chicana activisits, including the labor organizer/farm worker Dolores Huerta
Contact: Sylvia Morales smorales@lmu.edu
Category Archives: Working Class
A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay (2001)
57m; U.S.
Director: Kathy Leichter & Jonathan Skurnik
Tracks three welfare-recipients’ involvement in New York’s controversial Work Experience Program (WEP), the largest welfare-to-work transition program in the United States.
Contact: To order a copy of “A DAY’S WORK, A DAY’S PAY” call 1-888-367-9154, log on to http://www.newday.com, or write: New Day Films, 22-D Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus, NJ, 07432. Price to Purchase: $240 for universities; $89 for non-profits. Price to Rent: $60
A Kind of Loving (1962)
112m; U.K.
Director: John Schlesinger
A young man (Alan Bates), inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend’s (June Richie) pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.
A Lion Is In the Streets (1953)
88m; U.S.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, and Anne Francis
A Martyr To His Cause (1911)
The first film produced by organized labor – a short AFL film defending the McNamara brothers in the case of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times
Saul Schniderman, Library of Congress: sasc@loc.gov
A New Beginning (2007)
5m; U.S.
Director: Terry Lively
A short film on the West Virginia Public Workers Union – United Electrical Workers Local 170. State, county, and municipal workers in West Virginia brought the only union controlled by the rank and file to the state in spring 2007, marking a new chapter in organizing blue and white collar government workers. Terry Lively, a member of UE Local 170, and president of the West Virginia Filmmakers Guild, began a new film about contemporary unions in the state.
A Time To Rise (1982)
39m; Canada
Director: Anand Patwardhan, Jim Monro
Synopsis: On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.
Contact: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13589
A Very British Coup (1988)
148m; England
Director: Mick Jackson
Synopsis: When Harry Perkins, a steel worker and third-generation socialist from Sheffield, becomes Britain’s Prime Minister, he sends shockwaves through the government, both at home and abroad.
Contact info: BBC Grafton House 379 Euston Rd. LondonNW1 3AU UK +44 20 77 65 02 51 Fax: +44 20 77 65 02 78 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms Channel 4 Television Corporation 124 Horseferry Rd. LondonSW1P 2TX UK Phn: +44 020 7306 8333 http://www.channel4.com viewerenquiries@channel4.co.uk
Accatone (1961)
120m; Italy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Synopsis: Picture of alienated young man, slum life, Italian youth, and the Roman underworld.
Act of Vengeance (1986)
96m; U.S.
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley
Synopsis: Drama about the 1969 assassination of Jock Yablonski, who was challenging UMWA President Tony Boyle.
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