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UE/Wells

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New: Documentaries • 17m

Documentary • 1975 • 15 minutes

UE/Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.

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chicago, class inequality, doc, documentary, economics, expository, human rights, kartemquin films, labor, labor history, late 20th century (u.s. history), manufacturing, ovid, politics, race and racism, race/ethnicity/racism, shod, short, short film, trade unions, ue/wells, work

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