Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Labor

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

The 14 points 1992

Dr. Deming explains the 14 points that changed the world economy. Viewers learn how to create "constancy of purpose" toward improvement of product and service, to become competitive, stay in business and provide jobs; how to stop relying on inspection and build quality into the product in the first place; and how to drive out fear and break down barriers between departments so that everyone may work effectively as a team.

1 videocassette (40 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1951

1877 the grand army of starvation 1984

Re-enactment of the great railroad strike and general uprising of 1877. In the summer of that year, a rebellion by hundreds of thousands of Americans paralyzed the nation. Outraged by the excessive greed of railroad "barons" and the misery of a four-year depression, railroad strikers and sympathizers across the country clashed with police, militia, and federal troops, leaving over one hundred dead and thousands wounded.

1 videocassette(25 min.) :

MEDIA D-446

À bientot, jéspère Be seeing you 2003?

From 1967 to 1976 Chris Marker was a member of SLON (the "Company for the Launching of New Works"), which was based on the idea that cinema should not be thought of solely in terms of commerce. 1967 was also the year an important strike broke out at Rhodiaceta, a textile plant in Besançon, France. Chris Marker and members of SLON visited the city to document the strike and the lives and attitudes of the workers.

1 videocassette (39 min.)

MEDIA 2-6903

AgrAbility promoting success in agriculture for people with disabilities 1993

Discusses the AgraAbility Project, a federally-sponsored outreach service which helps injured and disabled farmers get back to work by providing access to social services and adaptive equipment. Several farmers with disabilities share their personal stories, including how AgrAbility assisted them in continuing to live and work on their farms.

1 videocassette (15 min., 57 sec.) :

MEDIA 2-2464

American dream 1992

The true-life story of a workers strike in Austin, Minn. When the Hormel Company made 2 million in profits and then cut workers salary by $2 an hour and benefits by 30%, the workers saw only one option: strike.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 958 2-3285

At any cost 1995

Shows the difficult conditions faced by trade unionists in their work throughout today's Asia. Debates the need for social clauses in international trade agreements.

1 videocassette (32 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3774

The Bayview Massacre of 1886 1987

Describes the struggle of the working class to achieve an eight-hour working day.

1 videocassette (15 min.)

MEDIA 2-6436

Behind the smile 1993

This film presents the human cost of Thailand's rapid industrialization by examining the living conditions of young female factory workers in Bangkok, who help support their families in the poorer rural areas of the country.

1 videocassette (46 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6013

Beyond culture shock 1983

Intended to help families adjust to living abroad through exploration of cultural and business practices in various foreign countries. Experts in cross-cultural topics and international living and seasoned travelers discuss the reaction to moving away from home and adjusting to life in a different society.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2815

The big one 1998

"Michael Moore, armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"--Container.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

DANA 1587

Biting the bullet 1991

When a large defense plant in Waveland, Mississippi is shut down as part of a nationwide program to reduce federal defense spending, the laid-off workers at the plant, who are also residents of Waveland, and Waveland itself, face an uncertain economic future.

1 videocassette (29 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2187

Black sugar 1989

Examines the mistreatment of Haitian laborers hired to cut sugar cane on plantations owned by the Dominican Republic State Sugar Council. Describes fraudulent recruitment promises, the practice of confiscating workers' official papers, extremely low wages, and the squalor, disease, and hunger of the work camps.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1597

Clockwork 1981

Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the development of "scientific management" in the early 20th century. Explains the techniques Taylor devised to study worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines.

1 videocassette (25 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2636

Coffee break! 1997

A documentary film during the coffee harvest on a farm near the border between Nicaragua and Honduras.

1 videocassette (27 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6033

Collision course 1987

Relates labor/management conflicts of Eastern Airlines during 1970s and 1980s. Examines both autocratic and democratic management styles through personal interviews, archival film, news videos, and photos.

1 videocassette (48 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2634

Communication across cultures 1991

Describes the need for employers and employees to understand differences in customs and manners and social mores in order to most effectively communicate in a business world that is involved in intercultural transactions.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2232

The customer is always Dwight how to achieve 100% quality the first time, every time 1988

Discusses how to achieve 100% quality in all areas of work; not just production but sales, accounts, distribution, administration--every department or section of the organization--by using "Process Management" to get things right the first time.

1 videocassette (22 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3740

A day without a Mexican 2004

California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 milion is their Hispanic heritage.

1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.)

MEDIA 10-350

Diversity at work 1992

This video describes the various cultural backrounds and work ethics that people must learn to become adaptable with in a new environment in order to work productively.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2745

Do not fold, staple, spindle or mutilate 1967

The story of a local union president who is challenged by younger workers in the union. In the contest for the union presidency, the young workers charge the aging leader with being out of touch and not giving adequate leadership to the local.

1 videocassette (51 min.) :

MEDIA D-319

Effective classroom management in the elementary school 1980

Illustrates teaching principles and activities that establish an effective learning environment in the first weeks of school.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-316 2-316 guide

El Crucero 1987

Reyna Flores -- Facing shortages -- History and nature -- Aqua puraDocumentary presenting an in-depth picture of El callao, a coffee plantation in Nicaragua's El Crucero region. Four different aspects of life and politics on that farm are shown.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 422 2-626

El mojado The Wetback 1974

Follows Eduardo from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico to Albuquerque, New Mexico in his search for work to provide for his family living near Chihuahua, Mexico. Also includes interviews with other undocumented workers and members of the United States Border Patrol.

1 videocassette (15 min.) :

DANA 367

El Otro lado The Other side 1979

Deep in Mexico, two brothers, a father and friends leave for work. They ride a bus 1300 miles north and cross into the United States by walking through the desert. They call the U.S. el otro lado, or, the other side.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA 372

Employer vs. employee 1982

Phil Donahue hosts a program presenting the case of Virginia Rulon-Miller, who was fired by IBM for dating an employee of a competitor, and was later awarded $300,000 in a "wrongful discharge" suit against IBM.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-452

Empowering workers 1992

This program surveys various attempts to increase quality and productivity by giving employees more direct input into the work process.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1942

Ending welfare as we know it 1998

"...follows six welfare mothers over the course of a year as they struggle to comply with new work requirements, find reliable child care and transportation, battle drug addiction and depression, confront domestic violence, and try to make ends meet in the new era of welfare reform."--Container.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 831 2-3680

Faat Kine 2000

The deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator, and unwed mother of two, who climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.

1 videcassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5725

Families first 1992

A report on an alarming crisis in the American social services system and an examination of a growing national movement that has achieved success in keeping families in trouble together through the innovative strategy of working with them in their homes. This documentary visits families in Missouri, Kentucky, and Michigan, who are dealing with personal crisis--parental neglect or abuse, parental substance abuse, out-of-control teenage behavior--that threaten them with the loss of their children to foster care.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2392

Far from Poland 1995?

Combines documentary footage and dramatic reenactments to portray the Polish Solidarity Movement and labor struggles.

1 videocassette (109 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6203

Fast food women 1991

Examines the working conditions of women employed in fast food restaurants in eastern Kentucky.

1 videocassette (29 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1876

Fatherhood USA: Juggling family and work 2003

Traditional role models of men portray them as providers, while women have historically been expected to attend to all domestic matters. This program features three men who, when forced to choose between family and career, chose their families. They discuss the implications of that choice, the impact it has had on their careers and conceptions of themselves as fathers, and the new opportunities that their non-traditional paths have afforded them.

1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-266 v.2

The fight in the fields Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers' struggle 2003

The story of Cesar Chavez, founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Examines the grape and lettuce boycotts and the non-violent movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-7153

Final offer 1985

"[Follows] Bob White, the president of the Canadian UAW, through the landmark 1984 negotiations and 13 day auto strike at General Motors .... White is caught between the hard-ball tactics of GM ... and the pressures of his own militant membership .... [A] candid look at the dynamics of collective bargaining and shop floor life." -- Publisher's flyer.

1 videocassette (79 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2631

Free trade slaves 1999

Film discusses free trade zones and the accompanying human problems that have arisen with human rights, exploitation of workers and environmental degradation. Filmed on location in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Mexico and Morocco.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6692

From bedside to bargaining table 1984

Discusses the trend toward unionizaion of nurses over concerns such as understaffing, excessive overtime, and low wages.

1 videocassette (23 min.) :

MEDIA 225

The future of work 1995

Economist Jeremy Rifkin discusses the displacement of workers by the information revolution and what alternative approaches societies might take to deal with changes in the workplace.

1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)

MEDIA 2-6481

The global assembly line 1986

Examines the economic and social consequences in both industrial and developing nations of the drive in high tech industries to increase profits and reduce costs by removing production to third world countries.

1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1327 2-6177

Harvest of shame 1991

Documentary showing the degradation and exploitation of migrant farmworkers in the United States. This broadcast led to the passage of laws protecting the worker's rights.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2482

Heaven will protect the working girl 1993

Period still and motion pictures and words derived from interviews, memoirs, newspapers and other sources are assembled to show the life of immigrant shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century. Illustrates the strike movement and their arrests.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2087

Huelga! 1968

Documents the first 18 months of the continuing migrant labor strikes against grape growers in California's San Joaquin Valley. Describes events leading up to the strikes and the development of small unions in the area.

1 videocassette (52 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2476

In the land of plenty 1999

Provides a human portrait of workers at the mercy of a greedy system as it follows Mexican migrant agricultural laborers in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California.

1 videocassette (62 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6038

It takes a child Craig Kielburger's story : a journey into child labor 1998

"Craig Kielburger was 12-years-old when child labor activist Iqbal Massih was killed in Pakistan. That event changed Craig's life forever. He went on a seven-week trip to South Asia to find out everything he could about the lives of child laborers. What he learned has turned him into a passionate, articulate, and incredibly effective advocate on their behalf. With a group of his peers Craig has founded 'Free the Children,' a children's organization that now has 10,000 members in 20 countries."--Container.

1 videocassette (56 min., 2 sec.) :

MEDIA 2-5152

Jobs, not what they used to be the new face of work in America 1996

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA 493

Keten van liefde Chain of love 2001

"A film about the Philippines' second largest export product-- maternal love-- and how this export affects the women involved, their families in the Philippines, and families in the West"--Container.

1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-7212

Last Pullman car 1996

The story of the closing of the last factory in America to manufacture subway and railroad cars. Shows the confrontation between Pullman workers fighting to save their jobs and the modern Pullman conglomerate.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

DANA 925

Litigating disaster 2004

On December 3, 1984, Bhopal, India suffered a massive chemical disaster when vast amounts of toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory, killing thousands of people and poisoning hundreds of thousands of others. This film presents the evidence assembled against Union Carbide, including documents and interviews with former Union Carbide employees.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6904

Live nude girls unite! 2000

Follows Julia Query, a peepshow stripper, on her journey to help organize the first strippers' union in the United States.

1 videocassette (71 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5901

Looking back at you 1998

This film examines the photography and photojournalism of Sebastiao Salgado. Particular emphasis is on his book, "Workers". Archival footage of Salgado's life and commentary from artists, photographer, etc. is also included.

1 videocassette (59 min.) :

DANA 1667

Made in Thailand 1999

A documentary about women factory workers in Thailand and their struggle to organize unions.

1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA 2-7215

Maid in America 2004

This video takes a look into the lives of three Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles. The issue of worker' rights is introduced in the film.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-7214

Managing differences 1992

Describes the differences which people of various races and cultures bring to the work environment, and how management must take these differences into consideration in order to promote communication and productive work relations.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2744

Managing diversity 1992

This program looks at how the influx of women, minorities and immigrants into the American workforce is transforming corporations and labor unions.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1943

Manufacturing miracles 1987

Examines the labor-management practices of Mazda Motor Corp. as a model of the Japanese approach to management. Shows their comprehensive training programs, reassignment of assemblers rather than layoffs, and their nurturing of a flexible and resourceful workforce.

1 videocassette (32 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2635

Mean things happening 1993

In the American democracy of the 1930's two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union. On the tenant farms and in the steel favtories working peoplw asserted their citizenship in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2226 2-4180

Miles of smiles, years of struggles the untold story of the Black Pullman Porter 1983

Chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union--the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides the most in-depth account on film of African-American working life between the Civil War and World War II.

1 videocassette (59 min., 30 sec.) :

DANA. MEDIA 360 2-927

No les pedimos un viaje a la luna We aren't asking for the moon 1986

The collapse of a Mexican dressmaking factory during an earthquake causes the surviving dressmakers to become more aware of their common bond. The unsafe working conditions and exploitation by the factory owners are highlighted by the tragedy of the quake, instigating the dressmakers to form a union.

1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-726

On the line, 1924 1998

When Henry Ford's Model T rolled onto the scene in 1908, it was inconceivable that it would ever be anything more than a plaything for the wealthy. But mass production and later Ford's moving assembly line, allowed manufacturers to produce goods at affordable prices that made them accessible to a new mass market. This film follows the acceleration of mass production, from the days of master craftsmen to the pressures and benefits of assembly-line work, to the growing strength of "people power" as labor and management struggled to divide the fruits of increased productivity.

1 videocassette (56 min) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3843 2-4004

The organizer 1997

"In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory"--Container.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3635

Organizing America a history of trade unions in the U.S 1994

Broadly tracing American labor history, this program incorporates interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage to provide a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues including health and safety conditions, the minimum wage, discrimination, job security and strikes. It presents the struggle of American labor against the backdrop of major events that shaped American society as a whole: world wars, the industrial revolution, immigration, unemployment, class conflict, child labor, women in the workplace, civil rights and the emergence of high technology.

1 videocassette (40 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3804

La Patagonia rebelde Rebellion in Patagonia 198

Film based on actual historical events involving the brutal military suppression of a series of strikes by rural workers in the southernmost province of Argentina in the early 1920's.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2812

A. Philip Randolph for jobs & freedom 1996

Music: Jesus is a rock in the weary land -- La Guiablesse: Entrance of Les Porteuse -- Night -- Let's all be Americans now -- On Jersey shore -- Get on board -- Now let me fly -- Pullman porter blues -- Hold the fort -- Mean low blues -- Happy days are here again -- Defense factory blues -- I'm so glad -- We shall overcomeBiography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a black union, The Sleeping Car porters. His threat of a protest march on Washington forced President Roosevelt to ban segregation in the federal government and defense industries at the onset of WWII and later he forced Truman to integrate the military. Finally with the 1963 March on Washington, Randolph succeeded in placing civil rights at the forefront of the nation's legislative agenda as he passed the torch to Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes music of the labor and civil rights movements.

1 videocassette (87:10 min.) :

DANA 871

Remote sensing 2001

This video essay discusses the routes and reasons women travel across the globe for work in the sex industry.

1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-7217

The Rouge 199

When built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. This documentary gives a first-hand account of how workers spent their lives in the factory.

1 videocassette (45 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5738

Sewing woman 1982

Tells the story of one woman's determination to leave war-torn China and build a new life in the United States. Based on the life of Zem Ping Dong who worked in sewing factories for over thirty years.

1 videocassette (14 min.) :

MEDIA D-328

Sexual harassment on the job 1987

Phil Donahue discusses sexual harassment in the work place with guests, Karen Sauvigne and Susan Meyer. Members of the audience present examples of such harassment.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-453

Ships of shame 1999?

The focus of this video is on India, where thousands of workers are risking their lives breaking up the ships the West has discarded.

1 videocassette (54 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6021

Sit down and fight Walter Reuther and the rise of the auto workers union 199-

Tells the story of Walter Reuther, a man whose leadership and vision of worker's rights changed the way America worked.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA D-233

Skills crisis 1992

This program focuses on the growing mismatch between available high-tech jobs and workers lacking basic skills.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1940

Song of the canary 1978

A documentary about the health hazards to workers at a chemical plant in California and at cotton mills in North and South Carolina. Probes the issues of government regulation, medical research, workers' compensation and the actions of employers, unions and workers, themselves, when confronted with life-threatening dangers on the job.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1277

Stolen childhoods 2004

A feature length documentary on child labor. Filmed in seven countries: Brazil, India, the United States, Mexico, Indonesia, Kenya and Nepal, stolen childhoods examines the cost of child labor to the global community, probes the causes of this complex phenomenon and recommends actions that can be taken to eliminate this human rights violation in our lifetime.

1 videocassette (1 hr, 26 min.)

MEDIA 2-7202

Stop the traffick 2001

Children as young as 10 years old are trafficked into cities from rural areas to become sex workers or trafficked out to Thailand to work as beggars, domestic laborers, or laborers on construction sites. This program examines the trade and new efforts by the International Labor Organization and local groups to rescue the children and stop the traffic.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5921

Strike Stachka 198

Set in pre-World War I Tsarist Russia, the story depicts a strike by factory workers and its brutal suppression by the authorities. The hero and principal character is the mass of workers.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1296

Struggles in steel a story of African-American steelworkers 1996

Interviews with more than 70 retired black steelworkers who tell of struggles with the company, the union and white co-workers to break out of the black job ghetto. Film traces a century of black industrial history--the use of blacks as strikebreakers against the all-white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great Migration of fieldworkers to the North in World War I, the racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919 and the ultimate success of the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-2994 872

Svokolik vatz'i viniketik sventa Mut Vitz The strength of the indigenous people of Mut Vitz 2000

Documentary showing the lives and work of the organic coffee producers of the Mut Vitz Cooperative in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.

1 videocassette (27 min.) :

DANA 1451

Tchuma tchato 1997

On the South bank of the Zambezi river, where the borders of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia meet, the first Mozambican experience in community management of natural resources has transformed furtive native hunters into game wardens.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3954

This far by faith-- 1991

Covers the strike at the Delta Pride Catfish processing plant in Indianola, Mississippi, the largest strike by Afro-American workers in the history of the state of Mississippi. Shows events as they unfold until the strike was settled in December, 1990.

1 videocassette (29 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2186

Ties that bind 1995

Efforts at union organizing in the United States and efforts by management to disrupt union oganizing are examined.

1 videocassette (57 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3085

Trouble on Fashion Avenue 1982

Explores the history and present state of New York City's garment industry. Includes a look at the conditions of labor in modern day sweat shops which exploit a new generation of immigrants and the influence of organized crime on management and in the garment workers' union itself.

1 videocassette (ca. 59 min.) :

MEDIA 10

Tucker the man and his dream 1989

Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. He manages to build a fleet of them--only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three automobile manufacturers.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-773

The uprising of '34 1995

A revolution of hope -- The consequencesA documentary on the working conditions of cotton mill workers in the South and events surrounding the General Textile Strike of 1934, the effects of which are still felt sixty years later.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3391

We are driven 1983

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-388

We are not your monkeys 1998?

We are not your monkeys: Short film of song offering the dalit (lower caste) perspective on the Ramayana version of Indic history and the caste system. Occupation, millworker: Textile mills, once the foundation of Bombay's economy, now find it difficult to survive in a changing economic climate. This documentary examines the struggle by millworkers to reopen a mill in 1992 after a four-year lockout by management.

1 videocassette :

MEDIA 2-3696

What could you do with a nickel? 1981

Follows the efforts of Black and Hispanic housekeepers to organize the country's first legally recognized union for domestic workers in the South Bronx in 1977.

1 videocassette (26 min) :

MEDIA D-314

What in the world?: India: India, working to end child labor 2005

Examines India's immense child labor problem and the fight against it.

1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-7130

When Mother comes home for Christmas-- 1995

Josephine is a migrant worker from Sri Lanka appointed to take full time care of little Isadora in Greece. Josephine's own children are left to a less fortunate fate in the home country. After an absence of 8 years, Josephine travels to Sri Lanka to visit her children for a month and the camera captures the complicated feelings of loss and longing that are the inevitable companions to this transitory union.

1 videocassette (109 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5499

Where do you stand? stories from an American mill 2004

On June 23, 1999, after a quarter century of struggle, textile workers in Kannapolis, N.C. won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South, a region long known as a bastion of anti-union sentiment. This film traces the story of that epic and often bitter struggle, and examines the efforts of workers to cope with a rapidly changing social and economic climate.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6911

Who protects the worker? 1980

Examines the workings of the labor market and the role of the labor unions. Friedman comes up with controversial views in answer to the question, who protects the worker?

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA 111

The Willmar 8 1979

Follows the efforts of eight women bank employees in the small town of Willmar, Minnesota, who go on strike for almost two years to obtain equal rights as women workers.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA D-101 6-86

The Willmar 8 1980

Eight women went on strike against the Citizen's National Bank in Willmar, Minn., because of employment discrimination. They formed their own independent union and even though they lost, they found new strength within themselves.

1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-7003

Winners and losers 1992

The global economy has produced big winners in the clothing industry; there are losers too. The United States once counted on manufacturing most of the clothes Americans wore, but half of that business is now in the hands of low-wage third world countries. Consequently, many American manufacturers struggle, while many Americans have lost their jobs.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2272

The Wobblies 1979

Former members of the Industrial Workers of the World reveal their feelings, motivations, beliefs, and actions. Uses union songs, posters, paintings, archival stills, and rare newsreel footage to trace the causes and effects of the one big industrial union that welcomed unskilled, Black, and female workers into its ranks during the early part of this century. Includes words of famous industrialists, financiers, and other Wobbly opponents as well.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1696

Work 1970

Shows several jobs on the assembly line of Detroit's automobile factories; includes workers' comments on their feelings about the work.

1 videocassette (15 min.) :

MEDIA D-187

Work 1999

"This program examines work from the early egalitarian hunter/gatherer and agrarian societies to the modern world--a world of multinationals and child slavery, of leisure and hard labor. Noted anthropologists, such as Professor Herbert Applebaum of SUNY, offer insights into how work has evolved and the challenges faced today, when millions are unemployed, and the economic disparity between the First and Third Worlds is becoming ever greater."--Container.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5943

Work vs the family 1992

This program notes that while the American family has changed, most workplaces have not adjusted to help workers, especially women with children, balance the demands of work and family.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1941

Working family values 1998

Explores the impact of work on families and the impact of families on work.

1 videocassette (56 min., 46 sec.) :

MEDIA 2-6064

Working like crazy 1999

Looks at the struggles and victories of a group of former mental patients who work in businesses owned and run by other psychiatric survivors. Often labelled "unemployable", they have found a safe place among their peers, a safe place where they can earn some income and rebuild their lives.

1 videocassette (ca. 54 min.)

MEDIA 2-7378

Working mom's survival guide 1991

Working moms are caught in a trap of trying to do it all. Being a good parent, partner and professional means being good to yourself first. The working mom's survival guide will help you sort through what's important and what"s not when time is your worst enemy.

1 videocassette (46 min.) :

DANA 1028

You've come a long way, maybe? 1981

Documentary on working women and the fight for equal pay. Examines the issue of comparable worth, focusing on a case of city nurses in Denver and their fight for higher pay.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5134