Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Made in L.A. [videorecording] = Hecho en Los Angeles / a film by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar ; directed by Almudena Carracedo ; produced by Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo ; written by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar, Lisa Leeman ; a co-production of Semilla Verde Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service ; a co-production with American Documentary Inc./P.O.V.

Publisher, Date:

[South Burlington, VT] : California Newsreel, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But more than this, Made in LA provides an insider's view into both the struggles of recent immigrants and into the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm, discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment."--Distributor.

Subjects:

Hernandez, Lupe.

Pineda, María.

Colorado, Maura.

Forever 21 (Firm) -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Sweatshops -- California -- Los Angeles.

Employee rights -- California -- Los Angeles.

Clothing trade -- Corrupt practices -- California -- Los Angeles.

Women foreign workers -- California -- Los Angeles.

Unfair labor practices -- California -- Los Angeles.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.