Notes Toward a Morphology of Labor Video
Afterimage, Sept. 1989, v. 17, no. 2, pp. 8-12
Fred Class identifies labor video situated within three problems: the corporate restructuring of the economy, labor's decades-long political draft, and labor's changing public image over the same period. These factors affect the current discourse of labor speaking through a central cultural medium (video) to particular audiences. Glass discusses this context, the emerging forms of labor video, produced over the past decade and considers future directions for labor video. Video provides an appropriate medium for labor activism, with it's structure for distribution - aiming to reach it's audiences (minorities, immigrants and youth).
ITEM 1989.109 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Testimony – Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
From Bedside to Bargaining Table – Lyn Goldfarb
From Bedside to Bargaining Table – Tami Gold
AFT 1493: The Movie – Fred Glass
One on One – Labor Institute of Public Affairs
The case of the Grieving Waitress – Fred Glass
Time to say Yes, Dukakis – Labor Institute of Public Affairs