Call No.

Title

Producer

Date

Length

Notes

759

A Balancing act: family and work in the 90's

NFB

1992

24 min.

Work and family; women and employment

1169

Before their time

Deveaux Babin

1997

28 min.

Ontario Workers’ Health & Safety Centre; cancer in the workplace; interview with Jim Brophy

1173

Business as usual

1987

89 min.

Feature film, starring Glenda Jackson. A union’s reaction to sexual harassment in a Liverpool dress shop

CRC 202

Chandler’s Mill

NFB

1990

29 min.

Children and employment; mill workers in New Brunswick

1079

Defying the law

NFB

1997

47 min.

1946 United Steel Workers of America strike in Hamilton, Ont.

1094

Emperor’s new clothes: a cautionary tale of free trade

NFB

1995

53 min.

North American labour market; free trade

427

Fast food women

Appalshop Film & Video

1991

29 min.

Fast food restaurants in Kentucky; women and employment in Kentucky

1081

Final offer

NFB

1985

78 min.

1984 UAW/GM negotiations; origins of the CAW

Kit 226

Fish out of water

Student program to Eliminate Environmental Cancers/WOHIS

1999

14 min.

Includes facilitator’s guide, transparencies, handouts. Prevention of occupational diseases; environmental health

Being ordered

Forward together: celebrating 25 years

OPSEU

2000

14 min.

History of the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union

1104

Germinal

CFP Video

1993

157 min.

Feature film. The struggle of 19^th c. working class coal miners. Based on Emile Zola novel

853

The Glass ceiling

NFB

1992

28 min.

Sex discrimination in employment

883

Grace Hartman: the first woman to lead a major union in Canada

Labour Video Communications

1997

22 min.

Labour movement in Canada; CUPE

Being ordered

Grapes of wrath

1940

129 min.

Feature film. Starring Henry Fonda. Dust Bowl refugees who lose their Oklahoma farms and become migrant labourers in California.

Being ordered

Harlan County USA

1976

105 min.

United Mine Workers strike in Kentucky

1162

Health is our right: a trade union approach to the environment

ILO

1992

45 min.

Trade unions and industrial environmental problems in Zimbabwe

Being ordered

How green was my valley

1941

118 min.

Feature film. Starring Walter Pidgeon. John Ford’s classic film about a Welsh mining town

831

Justice in the coalfields

Appalshop Film & Video

1995

57 min.

The 1989 United Mineworkers strike in the Appalachian Region of West Virginia, and the unresolved issues it left in its wake

1170

Labor battles the WTO in Seattle ‘99: workers of the world unite

Labour Video Project

1999

40 min.

The story of the Seattle demonstrations against the WTO, from the point of view of the workers and young people

1140

Many rivers to cross

CUPW

1999

94 min.

The 1997 negotiations between CUPW and Canada Post

Being ordered

Matewan

1987

130 min.

Feature film. The struggles of coal miners in post-World War I West Virginia.

1141

Memory and muscle: the strike of 1965

CUPW

1995

40 min.

How postal workers in Canada transformed two company unions into militant and activist unions

Being ordered

Norma Rae

1979

113 min.

Feature film. Starring Sally Field A textile worker in the South who organizes a union in her mill

Being ordered

9 to 5

1980

110 min.

Feature film. Starring Dolly Parton. Employees kidnap their sexist boss and take over the department

1080

On strike: the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919

The 1919 strike told through the recollections of people who were there

46

Ontario workers in the 20^th century

Memorial University Educational Television Centre

1985?

29 min.

Canadian labour history lecture: Dr. Bryan Palmer

1157

"It’s up to us"

OPSEU

1998?

8 min.

Demand-setting and dealing with issues in OPSEU/Ontario government negotiations; privatization, etc.

1093

Our health is not for sale

NFB

1993

26 min.

Industrial health and worker safety

Being ordered

The Organizer

1963

126 min.

Feature film. Starring Marcello Mastroianni. An organizer leads a strike of textile workers in Turin, Italy, in the late 1800s.

978

Out at work

AndersonGold Films

1996

56 min.

Documents the lives of three gay workers from 1991 to 1996

47

Quebec workers in the 20^th century

Memorial University Educational Television Centre

1985?

31 min.

Canadian labour history lecture: Dr. Leo Roback

CRC 206

The Road taken

NFB

1996

52 min.

History of Black sleeping car porters on the Canadian railways

578

Roger and me

1990

91 min.

Michael Moore’s humorous documentary about his efforts to interview General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and show him around Moore’s home town of Flint, Mich.

1172

Salt of the Earth

Labor Heritage Foundation

1953

c1987

94 min.

Classic docudrama about a New Mexico miners’ strike with most of the roles played by strikers and their families. The director was blacklisted and the film was involved in extraordinary legal proceedings during the McCarthy era in the U.S. See Biberman, Herbert. Salt of the earth: the story of a film (1964). PN 1997 .S14

1171

Songs of solidarity

Labor Heritage Foundation

1991

40 min.

Music from Solidarity Day 1991 features Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson, Anne Feeney, Tom Juravich, Joe Uehlein, etc.

926

Spudwrench Kahnawakee man

NFB

1997

57 min.

Mohawk construction workers at Oka

1066

Struggles in steel: a story of African-American steelworkers

California Newsreel

1996

56 min.

Racial discrimination in the steel industry

1092

12,000 men

NFB

1978

34 min.

History of the union movement in the Cape Breton coal and steel industries

939

An Untidy package: women and the Newfoundland cod moratorium

NFB

1997

47 min.

The effects of the 1992 cod fishing layoff on Newfoundland women

649

We do the work: family fuel - a coal strike story

California Working

1989?

30 min.

The 1989 West Virginia Pitston coal miners’ strike

585

We do the work: sewing our future

California Working

1989?

30 min.

A pre-NAFTA look ast the effects of taking garment industry jobs overseas

586

We do the work: prison labor, prison blues

California Working

1995

30 min.

What happens when private industry makes use of prison labour

470

Working lean: challenging work reorganization

Sky Works/CAW

1993

58 min.

CAW critique of a management-driven programme to maximize profits and reduce the number of workers - "management by stress" - causing physical injuries and psychological stress