DVD
Made in L.A. = Hecho en Los Angeles
Languages
In English and Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles.
Performers
Lupe Hernandez, María Pineda, Maura Colorado.
Publication Information
[South Burlington, VT] : California Newsreel, 2007.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
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.
Notes
Originally produced in 2007.
Subjects
- 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.
- Forever 21 (Firm) > Trials, litigation, etc.
- Hernandez, Lupe.
- Pineda, María.
- Colorado, Maura.