15m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: A short documentary that chronicles the struggles and victories of the Starbucks Workers Union, from how it formed, to members continuing to organize.
Contact: Diane Krauthamer iw@iww.org
Category Archives: Documentary
Together We’re Stronger (2008)
Director: Claire Harbage
Synopsis: Personal accounts of UCSC (CA) workers and their roles in union struggle. Work in progress; mostly of local interest.
Contact: Claire Harbage charbage@ucsc.edu
Totally Connected (2006)
4m;
Director: Randy Brown
Synopsis: Overwork Overbearing supervision Invasion of privacy (including GPS tracking) Impact of technology.
Contact: Randy Brown randy@brownragfilms.com 512-698-7328
Tower Colliery (2008)
11m; U.K.
Director: Claire Pollak
Synopsis: The success story of miners who pooled their redundancy money to purchase the land and mine to run Tower Colliery as a workers’ co-operative.
Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com
Traces of the Trade
Synopsis: fascinating film made by a descendant of the largest slave trader in U.S. history
Trade Secrets-The Hidden Costs of the FTAA (2002)
16m; U.S.
Director: Jeremy Blasi
Synopsis: Examination of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Transnational Tradeswomen (2006)
2006, 62 minutes, Color, DVD, Thai, Chinese, Tamil, Urdu, Japanese, Subtitled
available from Women Make Movies
available from Women Make Movies
Inspired by organizers at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, former construction worker Vivian Price spent years documenting the current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in Asia – discovering several startling facts. Capturing footage that shatters any stereotypes of delicate, submissive Asian women, Price discovers that women in many parts of Asia have been doing construction labor for centuries. But conversations with these women show that development and the resulting mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Their stories disturb the notion of “progress” that many people hold and show how globalization, modernization, education and technology don’t always result in gender equality and the alleviation of poverty.Celebrating a range of women workers – from a Japanese truck driver, to two young Pakistani women working on a construction site in Lahore, to a Taiwanese woman doing concrete work alongside her husband – this film deftly probes the connections in their experiences. In a segment exploring the history of the Samsui women in Singapore (Chinese women who were recruited as construction laborers in the 1920’s until they lost their jobs to mechanization in the 1970’s) unique archival footage and interviews with surviving Samsui offer an importation perspective on the historical and global scope of women workers’ struggles.
Trouble Sleeping (2008)
42m; Ireland
Director: Robert Rae
Synopsis: Survivors of torture that become refugees in Edinburgh.
Contact: ktough@twe.org.uk 07971590315 (Cell)
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