Organizing America
Subtitle: a history of trade unions in the U.S.
By: producer/director, Kyle Boyd ; writer, Susan Pointon
Contributors: Martin, Michael; Cambridge Research Group, Ltd; Cambridge Educational (Firm)
Publisher: Films Media Group; Cambridge Educational
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lawrencville [i.e. Lawrenceville], NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886; Labor unions; History; Organizing; Labor disputes; Working class; Strikes and lockouts; Labor leaders; Biography; Women; Employment; Child labor; Labor; Songs and music; Labor movement
Other titles: Organizing America: the history of trade unions; History of trade unions in the U.S.
Description: Broadly tracing American labor history, this program incorporates interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage to provide a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues including health and safety conditions, the minimum wage, discrimination, job security and strikes.

"Using interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage, this program investigates the major events in the history of American trade unions, from the formation of the first "friendly societies" in the 18th century, to the challenges posed by new technologies in the 1980s and 90s. Important issues such as minimum wages, health and safety conditions, discrimination, benefits, job security and strikes are addressed. Veterans of labor struggles, labor historians, and business and government officials reveal fascinating personal insights into labor's sometimes violent origins, and how its influences have changed the workplace over the past 200 years"--Container.
Notes: Originally produced in 1994.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Editor, Kyle Boyd ; camera, Greg Harpold, Kyle Boyd.

Narrator: Michael Martin.

DVD-R.