Movie brief content: This movie is based on actual strike Zinc Mine in New Mexico; the movie shows how government and company owners use to prejudice against Mexican- American workers; they were treated unfairly, paid low wages, hard working conditions, facing discrimination. Then how they reacted to such action and how women started to get involved during that time and helped their husbands and support them during the strike. The movie also showed how unions were suffering during the strike action and how they gathered and reacted towards owners and government. Clearly at the end of the movie it shows how Zinc workers won a limited victory. The film offers a certain kind of historical truth. But by placing the film in historical context,
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More than a decade ago, a similar situation relating in Argentina. In 2001, the country suffered a debilitating economic crisis and, as a result, defaulted on its foreign debt and stopped pegging the Argentine peso to the U.S. dollar. When the peso to dollar conversion jumped suddenly to three to one, many Argentines lost two-thirds of their savings overnight. Banks closed. Companies went out of business. And fully one-quarter of the population was out of work. Many of those people, in desperation, started to make their living from garbage. Working as "cartoneros," which means "cardboard people" they sorted through trash to find recyclable materials to sell for living. Thus was born Buenos Aires' informal recycling system, which is available recently. Eilís O'Neill has more on how the cardboard, who originally struggled to exist on what they could make on their own, eventually organized into cooperatives in order to help each other and to demand that the government support their efforts. (O'Neill, Eilis, 2012 …show more content…
The workers were working in difficult and unsecured conditions with low wages and unpaid holidays. A growing class of impoverished urban wages-labourers have faced horrific working conditions in early industrial mills (Krahn, Hughes, Lowe, 2015) p.5 ch:1. Furthermore not only working conditions but also how workers that time use to earn inadequate income that merely supports them until the end of the month with children to raise( Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt). The workers claimed that the owner of the company was not giving them their basic needs due to their ethnicity, they claimed that they were treated in such way because they were Mexicans. (Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt). According to ( khran, huges, lowe, 2015 ch:3 p. 63) that discrimination in work did exist during the 1950s and 60s; when work was available, "racist attitudes and labor market discrimination were rampant" first nation people were not allowed to vote until 1960. In the movie the Mexican- Americans' wives started to protest with charts written on "we want sanitation not discrimination" supporting their husbands against discrimination (Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt) minute 16. The workers had a meeting and decided to do a strike action until the company satisfy the workers' needs; the purpose of strike action is equality; also their wives went with them in order to help their men
More than a decade ago, a similar situation relating in Argentina. In 2001, the country suffered a debilitating economic crisis and, as a result, defaulted on its foreign debt and stopped pegging the Argentine peso to the U.S. dollar. When the peso to dollar conversion jumped suddenly to three to one, many Argentines lost two-thirds of their savings overnight. Banks closed. Companies went out of business. And fully one-quarter of the population was out of work. Many of those people, in desperation, started to make their living from garbage. Working as "cartoneros," which means "cardboard people" they sorted through trash to find recyclable materials to sell for living. Thus was born Buenos Aires' informal recycling system, which is available recently. Eilís O'Neill has more on how the cardboard, who originally struggled to exist on what they could make on their own, eventually organized into cooperatives in order to help each other and to demand that the government support their efforts. (O'Neill, Eilis, 2012 …show more content…
The workers were working in difficult and unsecured conditions with low wages and unpaid holidays. A growing class of impoverished urban wages-labourers have faced horrific working conditions in early industrial mills (Krahn, Hughes, Lowe, 2015) p.5 ch:1. Furthermore not only working conditions but also how workers that time use to earn inadequate income that merely supports them until the end of the month with children to raise( Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt). The workers claimed that the owner of the company was not giving them their basic needs due to their ethnicity, they claimed that they were treated in such way because they were Mexicans. (Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt). According to ( khran, huges, lowe, 2015 ch:3 p. 63) that discrimination in work did exist during the 1950s and 60s; when work was available, "racist attitudes and labor market discrimination were rampant" first nation people were not allowed to vote until 1960. In the movie the Mexican- Americans' wives started to protest with charts written on "we want sanitation not discrimination" supporting their husbands against discrimination (Biberman, Herbert 1954 Earth On Salt) minute 16. The workers had a meeting and decided to do a strike action until the company satisfy the workers' needs; the purpose of strike action is equality; also their wives went with them in order to help their men