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Urban Development: The Phoenix Initiative (1988 Video)

Producer

Clare Falkner

Subject

Economics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

In the 1970s the Black Country town of Wolverhampton was one of the most prosperous in the country. The foundation of this prosperity was the engineering industry. Reliance on manufacturing meant that the...

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Industrial Tribunal: Schools Programmes (4 Parts) (1977 Video)

Director

C Finnie; John Macpherson; John Scobbie

Producer

R Hunter

Subject

Law; Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29, 30, 25, 25 min.

Graeme Stuart finds himself unemployed after being dismissed. He has a strongly voiced grievance and seeks justice. The processes which he goes through prior to his case being heard by an industrial tribunal...

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Credit Crunch, The (2009)

Subject

Business studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

2008/09 saw the UK descend into its worst recession since 1980, with rising unemployment, falling house prices, dropping interest rates and widespread business failures. This film examines basic economic...

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Welcome to the Spiv Economy (1986)

Subject

Economics; Film studies; Media studies

Made during the industrial decline and rising unemployment of the 1980s, this documentary is a study of the burgeoning numbers of people in casual and temporary jobs, which indicates that the ‘gig’ or...

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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007)

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Subject

German studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 910 minutes), £54.99

Fassbinder’s television serialisation of Alfred Döblin’s novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, made in 13 parts plus epilogue. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf who, on his release from prison, is...

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Life of Jesus, The (1997)

aka: La Vie de Jesus

Director

Bruno Dumont

Subject

French studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

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Connemara Family, A (1983 Film)

Director

Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Since the great famines of 1840 Connemara, in the west of Ireland, has suffered from massive emigration as men and women were forced out by unemployment and poor living conditions. Now many exiles are...

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Good Guide for the Job Interview, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale: £149.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A video-based training pack for job seekers. The video shows a dramatised role play with help and advice from an expert. Two candidates are being interviewed for jobs. One is at the early stage of her...

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Kuhle Wampe (1932 Video)

aka: Wither Germany?

Director

Slatan Dudow

Producer

Georg M Hoellering; Robert Scharfenberg

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68, 48 min., 2004 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A 68-minute feature film written by Berthold Brecht, focusing on the fortunes of a working-class family in depression-era Berlin and the disastrous consequences of poverty and mass unemployment which forced...

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Upward Spiral, The (2004)

Subject

Careers Guidance; FE; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £44.00

A video aimed at people who, for a variety of reasons, have been seeking new employment for an extended period. The aim is to inspire the viewer. It features nine real people (not actors) who have been in in...

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