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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 102 min.)) : sound, color |
Summary |
An account of the strike of the employees at the Hormel meat-packing plant in Austin, Minnesota, in 1984 |
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American dream: After President Ronald Regan broke the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981, American corporations declared open season on organized labor. This Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991 presents the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. This film is documents the workers efforts to retain these middle-class, blue-collar jobs from beginning to end |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990 |
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Streaming video file |
Credits |
Cinematographers, Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry, Mark T. Peterson, Mathieu Roberts ; editors and co-directors, Cathy Caplan, Tom Haneke, Lawrence Silk ; music, Michael Small |
Performer |
Lewie Anderson, Ray Rogers, Jesse Jackson |
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MPAA rating: PG-13 |
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Soundtrack in English; closed captioned |
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Academy Award, Best Documentary,1990 |
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Description based on online resource; title from title frame (Kanopy, viewed September 17, 2020) |
Subject |
United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.)
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Geo. A. Hormel & Company.
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SUBJECT |
Geo. A. Hormel & Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00589195 |
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United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.) fast (OCoLC)fst00644450 |
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Geo. A. Hormel & Company Strike, Austin, Minn., 1985-1986.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Meat industry -- Minnesota -- Austin
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Labor unions -- Minnesota -- Austin
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Labor unions -- History -- Case studies
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Working class -- History -- Case studies
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Industrial relations -- History -- Case studies
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Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History
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Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History
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Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- Minnesota -- Austin -- History
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Jewish children in the Holocaust.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
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Working class.
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Strikes and lockouts.
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Packing-house workers -- Labor unions.
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Labor unions.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust.
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Industrial relations.
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Economic history.
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Children.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Meat industry.
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Austin (Minn.) -- Economic conditions
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United States.
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Minnesota -- Austin.
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Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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History.
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Feature films.
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Case studies.
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Documentary films.
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Internet videos.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Kopple, Barbara, film director, film producer.
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Cohn, Arthur, 1928- film producer.
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Gilbert, Peter, 1957- cinematographer.
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Keating, Kevin, 1944- cinematographer.
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Perry, Hart, cinematographer.
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Peterson, Mark T., cinematographer.
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Roberts, Mathieu, cinematographer.
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Caplan, Cathy, editor of moving image work, film director.
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Haneke, Tom, editor of moving image work, film director.
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Silk, Lawrence, editor of moving image work, film director.
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Small, Michael, composer (expression)
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Anderson, Lewie, interviewee (expression)
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Rogers, Ray (Actor), interviewee (expression)
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Jackson, Jesse, 1941- interviewee (expression)
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Prestige (Firm), production company.
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Miramax Films, production company.
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Cabin Creek Films, publisher.
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