Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
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![Factory Farms](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 718Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Factory Farms tells the unique story of California agriculture, a highly capitalized, sophisticated industry with substandard wage rates that keeps its workers in poverty and destitution. The film documents 1959 labor conditions for farm workers and reviews the history of union organizing in California agriculture.
![The Harvesters](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 719Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Harvesters documents late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14- to 16-hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. The film photographs people working many different crops. It also exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the sub-minimum rates available to American workers. The film was used by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film.
![Uno Veintecinco: The Lettuce Strike of 1962](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 723Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Uno Veintecinco documents the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), AFL-CIO, strike to get lettuce pickers in California $1.25/hour. The film interviews organizers and workers and reviews the 20th century history of labor organizing in California's fields. It contains footage of spontaneous strike actions in which farm workers are shown leaving the fields to join the strikers.
![A Visit to the Soviet Union Part 1: Women of Russia](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 724Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women of Russia resulted from a 1961 photographic tour of the Soviet Union which focused upon the work, housing, education, child care and medical facilities available to women in a socialist society. This film, part one of two, covers Moscow.
![A Visit to the Soviet Union Part 2: Far From Moscow](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 725Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Far From Moscow shows the conditions of women and children in Soviet areas outside Moscow, in the towns of Sochi on the Black Sea, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Irkutsk, Siberia. The film focuses on work, housing, education, child care and medical facilities for women and children in a socialist society.
![The Land is Rich](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 734Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Land is Rich documents the United Farm Workers struggle to organize California farm workers in the early 1960's. It includes their march from Delano to Sacramento in the spring of 1966. The film contrasts the economic strength of California agribusiness with the migrant workers' poverty shown in bread lines, living conditions and the impact of extensive exposure to agricultural chemicals. This film was used by the United Farm Workers Union.