Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor (Ilr Press Books)

10,000 Black Men Named George -- La terra trema -- These Hands -- They Drive by Night -- 35 Up -- This Sporting Life -- Tobacco Road -- To Kill a Priest -- To Save the Land and People -- To Sleep with Anger -- Tout va bien -- Trace of Stones -- The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal -- Trouble on Fashion Avenue -- Troublesome Creek -- Tucker -- Turumba -- TV Nation -- Uncle Moses -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Union Maids -- The Uprising of '34 -- Up to a Certain Point -- The Valley of Decision -- Voices from a Steeltown -- Wall Street -- Waterfront -- We Dig Coal -- The Whistle at Eaton Falls -- The White Rose -- Who Killed Vincent Chin? -- Who's Getting Rich and Why Aren't You? -- Wild Boys of the Road -- Wild River -- Wildrose -- The Willmar 8 -- With Babies and Banners -- Wittstock, Wittstock -- The Wobblies -- Women of Steel -- The Women of Summer -- The Worker and the Hairdresser -- The Working Class Goes to Heaven -- Working Girl -- The Wrath of Grapes -- Xala -- Xica -- Yellow Earth -- Thematic Index;Eight Hours Are Not a Day -- The Electric Valley -- The End of St. Petersburg -- Enthusiasm -- Evelyn Williams -- Fame Is the Spur -- Fast Food Women -- Female -- The Fight in the Fields -- Finally Got the News -- Final Offer -- F.I.S.T. -- The 5.20 an Hour Dream -- Flame in the Streets -- The Flickering Flame -- 42 Up -- Le Franc -- Free Cinema -- Freedom Road -- Free Voice of Labor -- The Full Monty -- Fury -- Fury Below -- The Garment Jungle -- The General Line -- Germinal -- The Gleaners and I -- God's Little Acre -- Goin' Down the Road -- Goin' to Chicago -- Gold Diggers of 1933 -- The Golden Cage -- The Grapes of Wrath -- The Great Depression -- Gung Ho -- Half-Slave, Half-Free -- Harlan County, U.S.A. -- Harlan County War -- Harry Bridges -- Harvest of Shame -- Heroes for Sale -- Hester Street -- High Hopes -- Hoffa -- Homecoming -- How Green Was My Valley -- Human Resources -- Hungry Hill -- Hyenas -- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang -- I Am Cuba -- I Can Get It for You Wholesale -- Illusion Travels by Streetcar -- I'm All Right, Jack -- The Inheritance -- Inside Detroit -- Island in the Sun -- JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob -- Jimmy Hoffa -- Joe -- Joe Hill -- John and the Missus -- Justice in the Coalfields -- Kameradschaft -- Keeping On -- The Killing Floor -- The Kitchen -- Kuhle Wampe -- Ladies Who Do -- Land of Promise -- Land without Bread -- Last Exit to Brooklyn -- The Last Supper -- The Learning Tree -- Legacy of Shame -- Life and Debt -- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter -- Lightning over Braddock -- A Lion Is in the Streets -- The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun -- The Long Road Home -- The Long Voyage Home -- Look Back in Anger -- Looks and Smiles -- Love on the Dole -- Mac -- Making Steel -- The Man in the White Suit -- Man of Iron -- Man of Marble -- Margaret's Museum -- Marty -- Matewan -- Metropolis;Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Select Labor Film Categories -- Tracing the History of Labor Films: A Chronology 18 -- Aclà's Descent into Floristella -- Act of Vengeance -- Ådalen '31 -- Alamo Bay -- À l'attaque! -- America and Lewis Hine -- American Dream -- American Job -- An American Romance -- American Standoff -- And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him -- Angel City -- The Angry Silence -- Año Nuevo -- A. Philip Randolph -- At the River I Stand -- Automation -- The Awful Truth -- Barbarians at the Gate -- Belfast, Maine -- The Bicycle Thief -- The Big Flame -- The Big One -- Bitter Rice -- Black Fury -- Black Legion -- Bloodbrothers -- Blood Feud -- Blow for Blow -- Blue Collar -- The Blue Eyes of Yonta -- Born in East L.A. -- Bound for Glory -- Boxcar Bertha -- Boys from the Blackstuff -- Brassed Off -- Brass Valley -- Bread and Chocolate -- Bread and Roses -- British Documentary Movement -- British Sounds -- Brother John -- The Buffalo Creek Flood and Buffalo Creek Revisited -- Burn! -- Burning Rage -- The Burning Season -- Business as Usual -- The Business of America -- Cabin in the Cotton -- Camera Buff -- Canada's Sweetheart -- Captain Boycott -- Carbide and Sorrel -- Cathy Come Home -- Chance of a Lifetime -- Chaos -- Chemical Valley -- Children of Golzow -- Children of the Harvest -- The Churning -- The Citadel -- The City -- Clockwatchers -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Coalmining Women -- Collision Course -- Computers in Context -- Comrades -- Controlling Interest -- Convoy -- A Corner in Wheat -- The Corn Is Green -- Cradle Will Rock -- Dadetown -- Daens -- Days of Hope -- A Day's Work, a Day's Pay -- Deadly Corn and Struggle in the Heartland -- Degrees of Shame -- Desk Set -- The Devil and Miss Jones -- The Dollmaker -- Down and Out in America -- Earth -- East Side Story -- Edge of the City -- Educating Rita -- The Efficiency Expert;Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti -- The Migrants -- Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle -- Millions Like Us -- Modern Times -- The Molly Maguires -- Mother -- Mother Trucker -- Moving Mountains -- Native Land -- The Navigators -- Net Worth -- Never Steal Anything Small -- New Deal Documentaries -- New Harvest, Old Shame -- The New Rulers of the World -- Newsies -- Nightsongs -- 1900 -- 9 to 5 -- Norma Rae -- El Norte -- Northern Lights -- Nothing But a Man -- October Sky -- Office Space -- Of Mice and Men -- Oh Freedom after While -- Los olvidados -- One Day Longer -- One Third of a Nation -- On the Waterfront -- On to Ottawa -- The Organizer -- Other People's Money -- Our Daily Bread -- Our Land Too -- Out at Work -- Out of Darkness -- The Pajama Game -- Perfumed Nightmare -- Picture Bride -- Portrait of Teresa -- Power -- The Price of Coal -- La Promesse -- The Proud Valley -- ¡Que viva México! -- Quilombo -- The Raid -- A Raisin in the Sun -- Ramparts of Clay -- Ratcatcher -- Red Sorghum -- The Richest Man in The World -- Riding the Rails -- Riffraff -- Riff-Raff -- Rising Son -- The River Ran Red -- Rocco and His Brothers -- Roger & Me -- The Roof -- Rough Side of the Mountain -- Roving Pickets -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Salesman -- Salt of the Earth -- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning -- The Scar -- Seacoal -- Secrets of Silicon Valley -- Shout Youngstown -- Signal 7 -- Silkwood -- Sit Down and Fight -- Slim -- The Solid Gold Cadillac -- Sons of Steel -- Sounder -- The Southerner -- South Riding -- Spices -- Stanley and Iris -- The Stars Look Down -- Startup.com -- Steel -- Street Scene -- Strike -- Struggles in Steel -- Sugar Cane Alley -- Sullivan's Travels -- Sunday Too Far Away -- Sun Seekers -- Surviving the Good Times -- Swing Shift -- Take This Job and Shove It -- Tamango -- Taxi Dreams -- Taylor Chain -- Teamster Boss The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.Praise for the earlier edition—"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement | The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by...

The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective.

Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements.

To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.

Praise for the earlier edition:

"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation

"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste

"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement

The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"either entrepreneurial or managerialperspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit . Praise for the earlier "Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'" The Nation "Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."Cineaste "An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics." Village Voice Literary Supplement The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down" -- either entrepreneurial or managerial -- perspective. Each entry includes critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and Web sites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films. Publisher description: The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements