Exploitation Videos

A documentary short about the Arts of Life collective in Chicago where developmentally disabled adults get paid to produce art. These are people who previously were ignored or marginalized in traditional programs for disabled people. http://artsoflife.org

On October 29, 2009 Tokyo union organizer of dispatch workers or temporary workers Chie Matsumoto was interviewed at a rally to change the dispatch laws in Japan. Chie Matsumoto also worked as a journalist is helping to defend Japanese Dispatch workers who are fired and discriminated against with no union protection or senority. The present Japanese law has allowed the expansion of these temporary workers and a growing exploitation of these workers in the workplace not only at shopping chains like the 99yen shops but at major industrial and commercial companies in Japan. Chie also talks about her experience working as a journalist for the major national newspaper Asahi Shimbun where she was layed off after writing about the conditions of temporary workers in Japan. Produced By The Labor Video Project, P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172 (415)282-1908 www.laborvideo.org laborvideo.blip.tv

A documentary on the lives and working conditions of domestic workers in New York City, highlighting their vulnerability to trafficking and abuse. The film uses the prism of South Asian women workers to focus of the larger issue of workplace exemptions for thousands of nannies and maids across the United States and the roots of this discrimination in American slavery. Produced, Directed & Written by: Pracheta Sharma & Jessica Hopper Courtesy Columbia University Graduate Journalism School