Media about U.S. Labor History

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In response to one educator's request, another educator sent out this compilation of videos/films about labor history.

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>Matewan is very good. So is Salt of the Earth. A good documentary is
>Union Maids. You might recommend that this teacher check out Power in
>Our Hands, the labor history curriculum that Norm Diamond and I did --
>distributed by Rethinking Schools. Bill Bigelow
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>First...You have to check out Harlan County, USA. I loved it. It is
>one of
>the best labor documentaries I've seen and it does a great job with the
>coal
>mines which has nice connections to today with the explosion that
>happened...a year or two ago...? Also, I recently watched one called
>American Dream which is about meat packers at Hormel. It is pretty
>good,
>but I'd probably use clips for this one. I would definately show all of
>
>Harlan County.
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>Bread & Roses (2000)
>A feature film based on the Justice for Janitors campaign in LA among
>immigrant workers. Maya (Pilar Padilla) is appalled at the work
>conditions and unfair labor practices at her job as a janitor in a
>downtown LA office building. She teams up with Sam (academy award
>winner Adrian Brody), a labor organizer, in a stirring fight against
>her ruthless employer. A selection of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
>British director Ken Loach's first film made in the United States.
>
>Roger and Me
>Michael Moore's documentary about the decline of Flint, Michigan and the
>role of GM in the deindustrialization of a once-thriving industrial city
>
>The Killing Floor- Feature film about the 1919 Chicago race riots,
>focusing on the
>migration of blacks from the south, the ghettoization of blacks, the
>efforts of
>workers in the meatpacking industry to unionize, and the tensions that
>led to the riots.
>
>The Triangle Fire -This is a 30-minute segment of the 10-part PBS
>documentary series on
>the history of New York City. It focuses on the conditions in sweatshops
>
>and slums among immigrants in the early 1900s and the efforts of unions
>and social reformers to organize to address these problems.
>
>Global Assembly Line -Documentary about the global economy, showing how
>global corporations
>and US policy pit workers in the US and workers in third world countries
>against each other; includes footage of the development of urban slums
>and maquilladora factories in Mexico.
>
>One Day Longer -Documentary about the strike of the Culinary Workers
>union against the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. This is good to show
>along with the article in the New Yorker, "How the Maids Fought Back,"
>about the union
>organizing among the hotel workers in Las Vegas
>
>
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>Norma Rae would be a great one for your class. (With Sally Field).
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>I highly recommend The Killing Floor. 1917, great migration, Chicago
>slaughterhouses, immigrant workers, labor unions and race riots. Annie
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>Blue Collar
>Clockwork (indispensible for school workers)
>With Babies and Banners, the Story of the Womens' Emergency Brigade
>(Great Flint strike vs Gm)
>
>Those would be my top three picks. Clockwork and Babies and Banners
>are under an hour.
>
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>The River Ran Red
>The Wobblies
>Reds (long)
>Eyes on the Fries
>Fast Food Women
>Prison Labor, Prison Blues
>Norma Rae
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>How about Academy Award winning documentaries by Barbara Kopple ?
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>Harlan County
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County%2C_USA
>starts:
>Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film documenting the efforts of
>180
>coal miners on strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1974. It was
>directed by
>Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights. Harlan
>
>County, U.S.A. is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her
>
>later American Dream, the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin,
>Minnesota in 1985-1986.
>and
>American Dream
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_%28film%29
>American Dream is a documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple centered
>on
>union meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between
>1985
>and 1986. Hormel cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 after posting
>a
>net profit of $30 million. The local P-9 union opposed the cut, but the
>United Food and Commercial Workers Union did not support them. American
>Dream features footage of union meetings and press releases, Hormel
>press
>releases, news broadcasts, and in-depth interviews with people on both
>sides
>of the issue.
>
>The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1990.
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>Also
>Silkwood
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood
>
>Silkwood is a 1983 film which tells the true story of Karen Silkwood,
>who
>died under suspicious circumstances while investigating wrongdoings at
>the
>Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. It stars Meryl Streep in
>the
>title role, as well as Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, David
>Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Susie Bond and Fred
>
>Ward.
>
>The movie was written by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron. It was directed by
>
>Mike Nichols and filmed in Howe, Texas.
>
>It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role
>(Meryl Streep), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cher), Best Director,
>
>Best Film Editing and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the
>Screen.
>
>Tagline: On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear
>facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She
>never
>got there.
>
>more background on Silkwood:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood
>Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 ? November 13, 1974) was an American
>labor
>union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near
>Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.
>
>Silkwood's work was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel
>rods,
>and she died under allegedly mysterious circumstances after
>investigating
>claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant.