Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining
Kartemquin Films
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31m
Documentary • 1983 • 30 minutes
In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable labor. A sequel to Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local.
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