Description
A series which investigates the international jobs market from the viewpoint of working people both in and out of employment.
Introduction
Opens with a one-hour programme on the world as a market place in which labour is bought and sold. We see Sri Lankan women being weighed and measured for export as domestics in the Middle East; we meet Mexican migrants in the US and casual workers in the UK waiting for day work; we hear from factory workers from the Phillipines and at Fords at Dagenham as they tackle of the problems of being forced to big against each other in the market place. We see big business getting more mobile too, as it travels the globe in search of even cheaper labour.
Departures
The Mexican village of Chavinda survives on the income from its migrants to the United States. Why do people become migrant workers? What happens when they are drawn to the expanding cities, or over the border into a “high wage” economy?
Arrivals
Juan Ramirez lives under a freeway in Los Angeles, and yet his work and that of millions of other Mexican migrants is essential to the US economy. Why is that the United States, and other societies in the Industrialised North, welcome the work done but resent the presence of immigrants?
Mobile Factories
Companies are searching further and further afield for good sites and cheap workers. Belling and Co. Ltd, who manufacture electric cookers in Enfield, North London, are expanding to Sri Lanka. How will this benefit those searching for work in Sri Lanka? What does it mean for the UK workforce? Will ” expansion” lead to closure in the UK.
Bargain Basements
In a scramble to attract jobs, governments all over the world are offering package deals of sites and workers to potential investors. How do the “cheap labour” workforces of Sri Lanka and Mexico defend themselves against exploitation? And what happens when companies move on?
Leftovers
Unemployment is a world-wide problem. Ken Slater a trade union official, guides us around the increasingly desperate job market in Accrington, Lancashire. With community worker Ainsley Sarmarijiwa we meet people searching for work in one of Colombo’s shanty towns. How different or similar are the experiences? Can the job market provide the work, and income, for the worlds growing number of unemployed.
Ways Out
Some people do well out of the world labour market. Many accept it as the best as the best available and try to defend themselves from its worst effects. Many others are excluded from it, and show the need for change. The final programme is about alternative approaches to work, and to the meeting of basic human needs.
This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £2.00, for this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing, the film is available to stream or download for £10.00.
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