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The uprising of '34 / Hard Times Productions, Inc. ; produced and directed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand ; executive producer, Vera Roney ; co-producer, Peter Miller.
LIBRA DVD 018 125
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile Workers' Strike, Southern States, 1934.
- Textile workers--Labor unions--Southern States.
- Textile workers.
- Strikes and lockouts--Southern States.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Textile industry--Southern States.
- Textile industry.
- Textile workers--Labor unions.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Uprising of 1934
- Uprising of thirty-four
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, [2007]
- System Details:
- DVD ; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This films tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of southern textile workers. After three weeks the strike was stopped, the strikers denied jobs. Sixty years later this strike is virtually unknown, and union representation in the South still suspect.
- Credits:
- Edited by Susanne Rostock.
- Notes:
- "Initiated and sponsored by The Research Consortium for the Southside Textile Strike of 1934."
- DVD release of the 1995 documentary.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- OCLC:
- 162101677
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