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Working in a Paper Mill

From: jessica lockhart
Length: 00:04:30

Paper workers reflect on their life in the mill Read the full description.

Sdwarren_small Remembering back to when employees felt a loyalty to their job, when they thought getting a job was good "for the rest of their life". This is a short version of a longer documantary called Remembering Mother Warren: a look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills. Both stories depict a time gone by, and bothare told by the paper mill workers from the S.D> Warren Mill in Westbrook, Maine.

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Remembering back to when employees felt a loyalty to their job, when they thought getting a job was good "for the rest of their life". This is a short version of a longer documantary called Remembering Mother Warren: a look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills. Both stories depict a time gone by, and bothare told by the paper mill workers from the S.D> Warren Mill in Westbrook, Maine.

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Review of Working in a Paper Mill

This is a beautifully produced piece giving a brief glimpse at the remarkable change in the American workplace. Using "Mother Warren's" mill as an example, this shows how "cradle-to-grave" blue collar jobs have become expendable ina globalized economy. Would be a nice piece to touch off a larger conversation on issues of unionization, corporatization, globalization, or the history of the workplace. This producer has also made a longer documentary, from which this is excerpted, and it's really well done, too.