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| The videos in this collection address a range of progressive topics from politics to media analysis to industrial relations and labor history. The videos on media explore the pervasive impact of the media on our culture and offer rigorous critiques of the overwhelming power of media’s effect. Looking at labor history, industrial relations and politics, the videos in this collection capture the voices of citizens who have struggled for and inspired positive social change. |
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A. PHILIP RANDOLPH: FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM
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VHS only, 86 minutes, 1996,  |
| A biography of the labor activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington. MORE... | |
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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| VHS only, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| Defining moments in the Civil Rights Movement are re-examined: the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. MORE... | |
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BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN
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| VHS only, 83 minutes, 2002, |
| Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. Bayard Rustin’s activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights, and how he navigated through his life and career as an openly gay man are the themes of this portrait. MORE... | |
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
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| VHS and 16mm, 45 minutes, 1984 |
| An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh’s declining steel industry. MORE... | |
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CLOCKWORK
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| VHS and 16mm, 25 minutes, 1982 |
| The only film on Frederick Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line and unskilled factory worker. MORE... | |
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COLLISION COURSE
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| VHS and 16mm, 47 minutes, 1988 |
| A case study of Eastern Airlines tracing the rise and fall of the workplace initiative, creativity and cooperation that, at least temporarily, pulled it out of bankruptcy. MORE... | |
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CONTROLLING INTEREST
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| VHS and 16mm, 45 minutes, 1978 |
| Candid interviews with business executive help to document the interconnected impact of multinational corporations on people around the world including case studies from Massachusetts' declining machine tool industry, Brazil's "economic miracle," and Chile before and after the 1973 coup. MORE... | |
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FINAL OFFER
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| VHS and 16mm, 78 minutes, 1985 |
| A case study of the collective bargaining process during contract negotiations between General Motors and the U.A.W. MORE... | |
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MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE
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| VHS and 16mm, 58 minutes, 1983 |
| The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. MORE... | |
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SHATTERING THE SILENCES
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VHS only, 86 minutes, 1997
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| Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. MORE... | |
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