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Edition:Full screen.
Imprint:Chicago : Facets Video, c2006.
Description:1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language:English
Series:Facets Video cool docs
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Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6624455
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Other title:HSA strike '75.
Other authors / contributors:Hoffman, Judy.
Quinn, Gordon.
Blumenthal, Jerry.
Brzostowski, Guillermo.
Kartemquin Films.
Facets Video (Firm)
ISBN:1565805380
9781565805385
Notes:Documentary.
Program content: c1975-c1979.
DVD; full screen presentation.
Summary:Three short films showing labor union activity in Illinois in the 1970s. HSA strike 1975 documents a group of doctors at Chicago's Cook County Hospital striking for better patient care. What's happening at Local 70 shows unemployment compensation employees in Chicago striking to improve working conditions. U.E. Wells captures the efforts of employees and United Electrical Workers' efforts to unionize a cast-iron foundry in Skokie, Illinois in the late 1970s.
Standard no.:736899091422
Publisher's no.:DV86939 Facets Video
Table of Contents:
  • HSA strike 1975 / a videotape by Judy Hoffman ; a Kartemquin Films production
  • What's happening at Local 70 / producer/director, Judy Hoffman
  • U.E. Wells / produced and directed by Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Guillermo Brzostowski.