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Explores the history of the portrayal of the working class in motion pictures
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Tom Zaniello is Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University and Visiting Professor in the College Degree Program of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.
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Like the labor movement itself, this film guide includes both the unionized and the nonunionized, the organized and the unorganized. Viewers looking for a film about working people, labor activism or history, and related economic and sociological issues should find this guide helpful. For students and teachers of labor history and trade unionism, this is currently the only comprehensively annotated guide with critical commentary and sources for further reading and research, all available in one volume.
Film students and teachers will discover, once such classics as "On the Waterfront" and "Harlan County, USA" are duly noted, a much wider range of films about labor than most studies have recognized.
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