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Work and Labour Relations (30)

Strikes (4)

  • 24 Hours or More
    24 Hours or More
    Gilles Groulx 1973 1 h 53 min
    This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ) is a cinematic tract by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Propped against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis, the film is a frontal assault denouncing a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil.
  • 24 Days in Brooks
    24 Days in Brooks
    Dana Inkster 2007 42 min
    Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.
  • Cotton Mill, Treadmill
    Cotton Mill, Treadmill
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    Denys Arcand 1992 2 h 39 min
    English subtitled version of a film showing factories' shutdown. Quebec textile workers organize themselves for better, healthier working conditions while the multinationals strenghten their empire.
  • On Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919
    On Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919
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    Joe MacDonald  &  Clare Johnstone Gilsig 1991 19 min
    The dramatic story of the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919 told through the recollections of the men and women who were there. This presentation traces the events leading up to the strike; the issues, the personalities and the divisions among the people of Winnipeg. It culminates with the riot of June 21, 1919 in which death and serious injury resulted.

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