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Author
Language
English
Description
The Molly Maguires was a secret society of militant coal miners who battled their exploitation by mine owners with violence, intimidation… and sometimes murder. Based on actual events, this gripping story is a sympathetic and accurate account of the Irish-American miners’ struggle. Richard Harris (Gladiator, Camelot) plays a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience. Academy Award®–winner Sean Connery...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detection. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise-up, and soften up.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music!
5) Norma Rae
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norma Rae is a Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages.
7) Gung Ho
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. It isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their new Japanese bosses, setting the stage for a comic clash of cultures. The day is saved when it turns out...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maya is an illegal alien who has crossed the U.S. border from Mexico to search for her sister Rosa, and to begin a new life. After being reunited, Rosa gets Maya a job with a janitorial service in a large office building. While working, Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator whom the service-workers' union has assigned to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Appalled at the work conditions and unfair...
9) F.I.S.T
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Union leader Johnny Kovak works his way up the Teamsters trade-union organization and comes under investigation for possible connections with the mafia.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color / black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when the Brookside coal miners voted for the United Mine Workers union, the Duke Power Company refused it. Barbara Kopple documented the struggle between the miners and the company, causing a big uproar.
12) Blue collar
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash. Their unexpected swipe suddenly envelopes the three autoworkers...
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (96 min, 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Riff-Raff: the story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Raining stones: An earnest man is driven to desperate measures in an effort to buy his daughter a First Communion dress.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
15) The wobblies
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 7 hours) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
(My name is Julia Ross) "An unemployed London secretary is hired as a live-in assistant for an elderly woman but soon finds herself in a nightmarish situation"--Container.
(The mob) "A police detective ... goes undercover as a dock worker in New Orleans in order to investigate the criminal activities of a waterfront racket"--Container.
(Drive a crooked road) "Los Angeles mechanic and race car enthusiast Eddie Shannon is seduced by a gangster's girlfriend...
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
Language
English
Description
"Cesar Chavez overcame huge obstacles, including extreme poverty and the prejudice that he experienced as a Hispanic American and a migrant farmer, to achieve his goal of helping to organize the first successful union for America's farm workers. As a union activist, he promoted the use of nonviolent strikes, boycotts and protests to help farm workers obtain better pay and working conditions, and forever changed the relationship between farm owners...
18) Boxcar Bertha
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930's, a young homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company. Martin Scorsese's second feature was made for budget-conscious Roger Corman.
19) Hoffa
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the legendary Teamster Boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob and his prison term.
20) Harvest of shame
Series
Publisher
CBS Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 1960 exposé on the plight of migrant farm workers led to permanent changes in the laws protecting workers' rights.
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