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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (495 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
3) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
5) Empire Falls
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Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.
6) The jungle
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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the...
8) Incendiary
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
When Ricky and his family discover that they may have a chance to get out of debt and back into a home by working through a delivery service in England, they discover how tough the business can become and start to face a new set of struggles.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
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"Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as "something approaching rock star status" in her field by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class...
11) The rock blaster
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 pages : map ; 21 cm
Description
"The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in...
12) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.
13) Down to the bone
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Irene is a working-class mother struggling to keep her marriage together while keeping her cocaine habit a secret. While in rehab she falls in love with a fellow addict, but when one of them relapses, their commitment to each other and sobriety shatters.
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"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. The decline of white working-class Americans, a demographic that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm -- but never before written about as searingly from the inside. Former marine and Yale Law School graduate J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social,...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Putty Hill: A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore. At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit...
16) L'assommoir
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
lv, 457 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Description
This is a new translation of the seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) - the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. A contemporary bestseller, it outraged conservative critics and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature.
17) The Organizer
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
18) My life as a dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An inclusive history of the labor movement examines the workers and organizers--freed black women, Jewish immigrants, Asian American field workers, and queer labor leaders--who risked their livelihoods to fight for fair wages, better working conditions, and an eight-hour workday.
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