> On Sat, May 31, 1997 at 08:33:39 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I am teaching a course this summer based on movies. I am > >curious if anyone has any suggestions for movies with a strong > >message concerning labor issues or unions. you might check out Tom Zaniello's book *Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riff Raff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor*/Cornell University Press, 1996... and to throw my 2 cents in: *Riff-Raff*: Ken Loach's 1991 film about homeless building homes for other people *Working Girls*: note the plural Girls in the title, this isn't the film starring Melanie Griffith...Lizzie Borden's late '80s film about prostitutes *Our Daily Bread*: King Vidor's 1934 film about creating farm coops during the Great Depression... *The Killing Floor*: 1984 PBS film about African-Americans working in Chicago stockyards during WW1 *High Hopes*: Mike Leigh's mid-80s film about social class in Thatcherite Britain *American Dream*: Barbara Kopple's 1989 documentary of the P-9 strike against Hormel Michael
