Occupation : millworker

Occupation : millworker / a film by Anand Patwardhan.

Textile mills were once the backbone of Bombay's economy and provided the city its working class culture. Today, foreign investment and rising real-estate prices have made selling mill lands more profitable than running mills. Mill 'sickness' is now an epidemic. This film records the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Patwardhan, Anand (Photographer)
Format: Video
Language:Hindi
English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2021]
Subjects:
Textile workers > India > Mumbai.
Strikes and lockouts > Textile industry > India > Mumbai.
Strikes and lockouts > Textile industry.
Textile workers.
India > Mumbai.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Courts métrages.
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Summary:Textile mills were once the backbone of Bombay's economy and provided the city its working class culture. Today, foreign investment and rising real-estate prices have made selling mill lands more profitable than running mills. Mill 'sickness' is now an epidemic. This film records the inspirational action of workers who, after a four-year lockout, forcibly occupied The New Great Eastern Mill.
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Originally produced in [1996].
Physical Description:1 streaming video file (22 min.) : sound, color
Production Credits:Camera, Anand Patwardhan, Simantini Dhuru ; music, Samagraha, Aavhaan Natya Manch.
Language:In Hindi with English subtitles.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).

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