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The Global assembly line
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- Summary
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Portrays the lives of working men and women in the "free trade zones" of developing countries and North America, as U.S. industries close their factories to search the globe for lower-wage work for...
Portrays the lives of working men and women in the "free trade zones" of developing countries and North America, as U.S. industries close their factories to search the globe for lower-wage work forces. From Tennessee to Mexico's northern border, and from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, this film "emerges as the definitive statement on the international division of labor and the growing importance of women in the industrial workforce."
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- Creator
- Educational TV and Film Center ; director, Lorraine Gray ; producers, Lorraine Gray, Anne Bohlen, Maria Patricia Fernández Kelly
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- N.Y.C., N.Y. : New Day Films, [1986]
- ©1986
- Physical Details
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- 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in
- OCLC
- ocm30344364
- A videocassette release of the 1986 motion picture by Educational TV and Film Center.
- VHS format.
Subjects
- Corporations, American -- Developing countries -- Employees.
- Women -- Employment -- Developing countries.
- Industrial hygiene -- Developing countries.
- Labor -- United States.
- Labor -- Philippines.
- Labor -- Mexico.
- Offshore assembly industry -- Social aspects.
- International business enterprises -- United States -- Employees.
- Industries -- Social aspects -- United States.
- International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- United States.