AT THE RIVER I STAND (VT2235) VHS format video.......59 minutes.......1993 
Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement-- the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee
and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Shows how the black community, local civil rights leaders, and
AFSCME mobilized behind the strikers in mass demonstrations and a boycott of downtown businesses........

BETTINA GRAY SPEAKS WITH LUIS VALDEZ (VT1835) VHS format video.......26 minutes.......1991 
Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez, the celebrated founder of the Teatro Campesino, the West Coast theatrical
group that has given voice to the struggles of Chicano farm workers. Valdez describes how he became a playwright
and director and explains how his plays retrace the experiences of Chicano families.

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA (MC301) 16mm film.......43 minutes.......1983 
Studies the effects of United States Steel Corporation's shutdown of its plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, on
steelworkers and their families. Examines United States Steel's motives for the shutdown in the context of corporate
mergers and corporate profits.

THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE: A NEW DEAL AT WORK (VT1917) VHS format video.......30
minutes.......1985
Labor and industry representatives discuss ways to have more worker input into management decisions, particularly
within the mineral and logging industries in Canada. Four stories of successful worker involvement are presented. 

CLOCKWORK (VT1908) VHS format video.......25 minutes.......1982
Through archival and contemporary documentary footage, this film studies the role of Frederick Winslow Taylor in the
development of scientific management in the early twentieth century. Explains the techniques Taylor used to study
worker movements and the methods he conceived to divide complex jobs into smaller, unskilled routines. 

COLLISION COURSE (VT607) VHS format video.......49 minutes.......1987 
Explanation and analysis of the fragile 1984 agreement between labor and management of Eastern Airlines that
allowed for partial ownership of the company by labor, which resulted in increased productivity and earnings until the
rise of such carriers as People Express.

CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA (Man Of Iron) (VT2582)
VHS format video.......140 minutes.......1981
Blends documentary and fictional footage to portray the Polish Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer
of 1980. An alcoholic TV journalist is ordered to smear one of Solidarity's key figures, coined the "man of iron."
Directed by AndrejWajda. English subtitles.

FAST FOOD WOMEN (VT3118)..... VHS format video.......29 minutes.......1991
Examines the working conditions of women working in four fast food restaurants in eastern Kentucky. These women,
mostly middle-aged and with children to raise, are often the sole source of income for their families. They work for
wages barely above the minimum, have trouble getting full-time hours because of their employer's scheduling policies,
and are without health care and other benefits.

FINAL OFFER (VT460) VHS format video.......78 minutes.......1985 
Tapes made just before and during the 1984 strike against General Motors by the United Auto Workers, Canadian
section; shows union leader Bob White as he fights both the company and the United States union leadership to retain
traditional wage increases in the Canadian contract. National Film Board of Canada.

FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE BUSINESS: A JOINT VENTURE INTO CHANGE (VT1918) VHS format
video.......29 minutes.......1993
In resolving a strike at the Saskatoon Chemicals company in Canada, company and union officials agreed to a plan
for increased communication an participation for workers. 

GLOBAL ASSEMBLY LINE (VT651) VHS format video.......60 minutes.......1986.......2 copies 
Filmed in electronic and garment factories, this documentary examines the flight of labor-intensive jobs from the
United States to free-trade zones in developing countries, and the exploitation of workers, mostly young women, in
those areas.

GOOD MONDAY MORNING (MC321)
16mm film.......30 minutes.......1982
Interviews with clerical workers and operators of video display terminals (VDTs). Presents the tedium, stress and
lack of respect inherent in many clerical positions. Shows clerical workers organizing a strike, and presents their
reasons for striking.

1877, THE GRAND ARMY OF STARVATION (VT1425) VHS format video.......30 minutes.......1987 
In the summer of 1877, eighty thousand railroad workers went on strike, and were joined by hundreds of thousands
of other Americans. The Great Uprising inaugurated a new era of conflict over the meaning of equality in the industrial
age. Study guide available.

HARLAN COUNTY, USA VHS format video (VT2258).......103 minutes.......1976 
16mm film (MD55, 56, 57).......103 minutes.......1976.......3 reels 
This documentary chronicles the efforts of 180 coal mining families to win a United Mine Workers contract at the
Brookside mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. The strike began in 1974 after miners voted to join the United Mine
Workers of America and Duke Power Company, parent company of the Brookside mine, refused to sign a standard
U.M.W. contract. This was the first major confrontation in Harlan County since the bloody union organizing battles in
the 1930s, when five men were killed. CBS.

HUNGRY FOR PROFIT (VT1118)
VHS format video.......85 minutes.......1984
Documentary showing how agribusiness has created large, mechanized plantations out of small peasant farms which
grow profitable export crops despite local food needs. Shows how this situation actually increases the amount of
hunger for some Third World countries.

THE INHERITANCE 16mm film (MC184).......45 minutes.......1965.......b/w.......2 reels 2 copies VHS format
video (VT2552)............................1 tape 
Massive migrations to America took place in the late 19th and early 20th century. The social, economic and cultural
changes which marked the immigrants' early years in this country are discussed. Conditions since 1900 as found in the
sweatshops, coal mines and weaving mills and as evidenced in the labor struggles of the thirties and the civil rights
movement of the sixties are shown.

THE KIMBERLY MOB (VT2017).... VHS format video.......53 minutes.......1992.......c/b/w
When they won equal pay with white cowboys in the 1960's, the aboriginal stockmen of Australia's outback region of
Kimberly were fired from their jobs by the thousands. Now a growing spiritual and economic movement is
encouraging those banished to the towns to return to work on the land. From the Indigenous Peoples: Standing Their
Ground series

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER 16mm film (MC286)
VHS format video (VT1624)
.......60 minutes/65 minutes.......1980.......2 reels/1 tape Several women, who worked in the shipyards and defense
plants during World War II, recount their experiences at work and offer comments on society's expectation of them
during the war effort and after the war. Their narratives are interspersed with sequences from war department films,
newsreels, and Hollywood movies made during that time which concerned women working outside the home.

LOOSE BOLTS (MC173) 16mm film.......30 minutes.......1973.......2 copies
Deals with work on assembly lines. Interviews employees at a Ford automobile plant in order to show their reactions
to this well-paid, but potentially dehumanizing type of work.

THE POWER OF PARTICIPATION (VT2281).... VHS format video.......28 minutes.......1994
In a conscious effort to develop a non-traditional labor organization, L-S-Electrogalvanizing Company has its workers
train for all aspects of line work, including operations, quality control and maintenance. Extensive training, pay for
skills, direct customer and supplier relations, and labor/management committees ensure that workers understand the
broad picture and have control over how they accomplish their goals. 

RAILROAD WOMEN (VT936).... VHS format video.......29 minutes.......1988
Explores the history of womens' work on the railroads; by talking with women who worked on the railroads during
World War II and interviewing two women who currently work on the railroads. Produced by Sharon Genasci and
Dorothy Velasco. 

RESTORING EMPLOYEE RIGHTS IS GOOD FOR AMERICA VHS format video.......20 minutes.......1993 
During the Reagan-Bush years, the rights of employees to organize unions were systematically undermined. The union
believes that the best antidote to falling living standards and economic decline is a restoration of employees rights.

THE RICE LADLE: THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN (VT238)..... VHS format video.......28
minutes.......1982
Investigates the role of women in Japan's work force, focusing on a young, would-be pop star and a widow who
supports herself as a cook's assistant in a sushi shop. It shows how a woman's desire for a paid career clashes with
society's expectations that she will be first and foremost a homemaker. Part 6 of the Human Face of Japan series.
Study guide available.

THE RIVER RAN RED (VT2239) VHS format video.......58 minutes.......1993 
Gripping account of the summer of 1892, in which a bitter conflict erupted at the Carnegie Works in Homestead,
Pennsylvania. The nation's largest steel maker took on its most militant labor union, with devastating consequences for
American workers.

THE ROAD TO HAYMARKET (VT927) VHS format video.......30 minutes.......1986 
Recreation of the incidents which led to the Haymarket incident in Chicago in 1886, in which police shot people at a
labor rally.

RURAL COMMUNITIES: LEGACY AND CHANGE (VT1717).... VHS format video.......60 minutes
each.......1992.......13 tapes
Explores rural conditions in the U.S. from a sociologist's viewpoint. Textbook, faculty guide and study guide available.
Tape 1 WHO CARES? 
Almost all of America was once rural. Forms of local government, our culture and our values are rooted in an agrarian
past. While politicians still invoke the mythical land of simple virtues and communion with nature, rural communities
are experiencing a decade of complex and drastic change. Does the future of rural communities matter to us?
Tape 2 ECONOMIC BASE 
The extent to which rural economies have shifted is documented. History is contrasted with the more recent, dramatic
economic transitions underway in four diverse rural communities - an Iowa farm community, a California ski resort
town, a Georgia manufacturing town and a West Virginia coal county.
Tape 3 JUST FOLKS 
Culture and ideology affect how a community defines its identity and shapes the choices of its residents. Churches and
schools are featured as powerful institutions in small towns. A community's culture affects how social problems are
defined and what solutions are considered acceptable.
Tape 4 LEGACY 
Rural families discuss the "legacies" they hope to pass on to their children and for which they are willing to sacrifice,
including land or a business, education open space, a clean environment, a work ethic and a sense of dignity or
self-respect. Family legacies depend on social class, gender, race and ethnicity. What is "owed" to the next
generation?
Tape 5 ACT LOCALLY . . and Invest 
Capital includes money, land, human resources and natural resources. In some rural communities the money needed
to finance small businesses is difficult to attract. Savings of community members tend to be invested outside the
community. Innovative financing for economic development is required in small communities. The Penobscot Nation in
Maine and a family-run shoe factory in rural Ohio illustrate how rural people solve problems of capital.
Tape 6 THINK GLOBALLY 
The economic environment created by the global community is a tremendous challenge to rural communities.
Southeast Asians move to Kansas to work in a meat-packing factory. In the Dominican Republic, women sew shoes
for a factory based in Southeastern Ohio. What economic development strategies are appropriate to this global
environment? What social problems result from a community's integration into the world economy?
Tape 7 THE TOWN THAT'S BEEN THROUGH THE MILL 
Through the eyes of a small town in Oregon, we examine the impact of economic change often required of rural
people. Oakridge is a timber community whose mill is now closed permanently. Mill workers, community leaders and
government officials share their perceptions of the interplay of forces that have led to an economic crisis and the
inevitable social problems for the community. 
Tape 8 HEREBY NOTIFIED AND CALLED TO MEET 
Today's rural communities are under tremendous pressure to address increasingly complex issues with dwindling
resources. The political infrastructure has developed in a diverse fashion in different rural communities. Direct
democracy through the town meetings in Vermont is compared with city councils in Caliente, Nevada. Who controls
(and pays for!) local schools is a hotly debated topic in Kentucky.
Tape 9 THE BASICS 
Economic infrastructure is the skeleton of a community. Bridges, roads and water systems are critical to economic
development and community well-being. Many of the everyday services that all households need to function
comfortably depend on the provision of collective goods and public services. The sparse population base in rural
areas makes it expensive to provide the social services and government-funded community maintenance which have
become the norm in U.S. society.
Tape 10 THE WILL TO GROW 
Sociologists predicted the death knell for Caliente years ago, when the railroad no longer stopped in this isolated
Nevada town. Yet it remains on the map. Why does one rural community survive all odds while another town with
almost identical resources become a ghost town? The social infrastructure of rural communities is examined for clues.
Tape 11 CAPACITY TO CARE 
Meeting the needs of special populations is costly and challenging for any community. Some rural communities have
been able to create models that build on the strength of their community and adapt their extremely limited resources.
The elderly, the illiterate and the disabled are a few of the important groups protected by communities in Virginia,
Alabama and Ohio.
Tape 12 COMMUNITIES ON THE MOVE 
How do small towns with limited resources manage the change process? Visionary leaders and innovative
approached are featured, including a production and direct marketing sheep and weaving cooperative in Northern
New Mexico, the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks based in Southeast Ohio and the Hempstead Melon
Collective in Texas.
Tape 13 WHAT NEXT? 
Sociologists discuss rural public policy issues for the next decade, including the impact of information technologies for
rural America, environmental concerns and the role of state and federal government in shaping the rural agenda. A
look to the future enables us to examine how the choices we make, as individuals and as a society, can help rural
communities take advantage of the opportunities that exist.

SALT OF THE EARTH (MD44 / VT 972) 16mm film & 1/2.......94 minutes.......1954.......b/w.......3 reels 
A social drama which depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a union strike of
underprivileged Mexican and American workers who endeavor to prevent their wives from participating on an equal
basis in the strike.

TALKING HISTORY - - WITH SILK WINGS: ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN AT WORK (VT1558) VHS
format video.......30 minutes.......1982
Five women - Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Hmong - talk about their lives as Asian-Americans and about
their social, educational and work experiences. In Chinese, Japanese and English with English subtitles.

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS WOMEN'S WORK (VT623) VHS format video.......30 minutes.......no date
Gives a history of women's roles in the American workplace, from the colonial period up to the present. 

A TIME OF CHALLENGE (MC314) 16mm film.......27 minutes.......1981 
Illustrates labor history from the first small fragmentary strikes to the organized AFL-CIO of today. Interviews with
union members, detailed history of the labor movement, and a look at major union leaders.

TWO GENERATIONS OF LABOR SINGERS (VT1318) VHS format video.......28 minutes.......1989 
Utah Phillips continues the tradition of Woodie Guthrie, singing traditional songs from the Industrial Workers of the
World. Billy Bragg pickets and campaigns for the Labour Party in Great Britain by giving labor songs a rock and roll
treatment.

UNION MAIDS VHS format video (VT2130).......48 minutes.......1975 16mm film (MD67).......50
minutes.......1975.......b/w 
Presents an adaptation of the book entitles Rank and File by Alice Lynd about the American labor movement in the
1930s. Relates the personal experiences of three women who tried to organize laborers in Chicago in this period.

THE UPRISING OF '34 (VT2792) VHS format video.......87 minutes.......1995.......c/b/w 
This films tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of
southern textile workers. After three weeks the strike was stopped, the strikers denied jobs. Sixty years later this
strike is virtually unknown, and union representation in the South still suspect.

WE'RE AMERICA'S TEAMSTERS (VT479) VHS format video.......28 minutes.......1986 
Two productions about the teamsters: Proud to Be A Teamster (4 minutes), a visual/song production showing the
different faces of US and Canadian teamsters, and We're America's Teamsters, detailing the history, people, and
diversity of the workers involved in the Teamsters and the political and service activities of the union.

WHAT COULD YOU DO WITH A NICKEL? (VT1553) VHS format video.......26 minutes.......1981 
Documentary of the 1977 attempt by 200 black and Hispanic housekeepers in the South Bronx to organize and form
a domestic workers' union. Though they did not succeed, they provided the impetus for a legally recognized
housekeepers' union in New York City with 6,000 members.

WHO WANTS UNIONS? (MD84) 16mm film.......26 minutes.......1982 
Explores violent union-busting, both past and recent. Looks at current management techniques to ward off unions by
using psychologists, management consultants, and interactive workshops. Documents the viewpoints of both labor and
management, raising the question: Who wants unions? National Film Board of Canada.

WITH BABIES AND BANNERS (VT1233) VHS format video.......45 minutes.......1978 
Traces the role of women in the formation of the United Auto Workers using archival footage and interviews with the
participants on the 40th anniversary of the strike. Details the contributions of the Women's Emergency Brigade to the
labor movement of the 1930's.

WORK & FAMILY (VT2465).... VHS format video.......95 minutes.......1994
First of three programs in the series A Century of Women that tells the story of women in the 20th centuryÜhow they
lived, loved, worked, played, and changed the course of American history. This part deals with the struggles of
twentieth-century women to balance work, marriage and motherhood--often a matter of survival. Closed captioned
for the hearing impaired. 

YOU MAY CALL HER MADAM SECRETARY (VT1197) VHS format video.......58 minutes.......1987 
Documentary about Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor from 1933 - 35. She was a leading social reformer of
her day and an advisor to New York Governor Al Smith and President Roosevelt.