Labor and Film Collection at WCSU
The Ruth Haas Library owns a special collection of videos about labor. Most of the videos in this collection were donated by a local union -- the WesConn Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union AFL-CIO.
Any one wishing to borrow a video from the collection should contact the library directly. Over a period of time, we will link each video to CONSULS (the online catalog of the CSU libraries), so you can read the library's brief summary of each video, and check the video's availability.
Unlinked videos are not yet catalogued.
Also check out the article "Solidarity (and Films) Forever: a reviewers pick of union movies" by Emma Wunsch of The Washington Free Press,
and the book Working stiffs, union maids, reds, and riffraff: an organized guide to films about labor by Tom Zaniello.
50 Years of industrial unionism
American dream (Academy Award for Best Documentary, 1990)
Behind the scenes II
Behind the scenes III
The big red scare of 1919-1920
Biting the bullet
Brass valley
The business of America
Culture and caution
A dirty business with Marty Levitt
Discounted lives
Eugene Debs and the American movement
Drawing the line at Pittston
Family fuel: a coal stike story
Fear & favor in the newsroom
The fight in the fields
Final offer
The great depression
Harlan County, USA
Harvest of shame
Heaven will protect the working girl
High Tech Families
If you don't come in on Sunday.....don't come in on Monday
The inheritance
An interview with monsignor George Higgins
John Peter Altgeld
The jungle
The killing floor
Leather soul: working for a life in a factory town
Leaving home
Legacy of the Hollywood blacklist
Life on the beam
A line in the sand: the struggle at the hotel Normandy
Locked out in America
Matewan
Memorial day massacre of 1937
Miles of smiles
Native Land
Norma Rae
Not in our town
The odyssey of John Dos Passos
Organizing America
Out of darkness
Out of the depths: the miner's story
Palace cars and paradise: the Pullman model town
Prison labor, prison blues
The pullman strike
Recording the American experience
The river ran red
Roger & Me
Salt of the Earth
Seeing red: stories of American communists
Showdown at Century City
Sit down and fight
Strikestory: San Francisco before the '34
Tale of two hotels
This far by faith
Ties that bind
Transit tech
Turbulent romance
UAW tool and die strike of 1939
Union maids
The uprising of '43
Visual perspectives
Wilmar 8
Women of steel
Wonder of the world
Working until it hurts
