The film "Five Factories" (81 minutes, 2006, Venezuela) offers an inside look at worker-run cooperatives managing factories producing aluminum, paper, cocoa, tomato sauce, and cotton.
The film will screen Tuesday, Dec. 9, as part of the Labor and Community Film Series. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Rondo Library, corner of Dale and University in St. Paul. Admission is free and open to the public.
"Five Factories" tells how these companies, many driven into bankruptcy by their former owners, have been transformed. The Chavez government provided the workers with loans to purchase the factories. Workers elect the management of the factories and will own the factories after repaying government loans.
The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
The film series is sponsored by the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. For the full schedule of films in the series, visit www.les.csom.umn.edu.
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.
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The film "Five Factories" (81 minutes, 2006, Venezuela) offers an inside look at worker-run cooperatives managing factories producing aluminum, paper, cocoa, tomato sauce, and cotton.
The film will screen Tuesday, Dec. 9, as part of the Labor and Community Film Series. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Rondo Library, corner of Dale and University in St. Paul. Admission is free and open to the public.
"Five Factories" tells how these companies, many driven into bankruptcy by their former owners, have been transformed. The Chavez government provided the workers with loans to purchase the factories. Workers elect the management of the factories and will own the factories after repaying government loans.
The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
The film series is sponsored by the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. For the full schedule of films in the series, visit www.les.csom.umn.edu.
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.