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  1. SUPPORTING PROGRAMME

    Date released
    Jan 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346196
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The Institution of Mining Engineers meet in Manchester. From nearby Bradford Colliery a demonstration of the NCB’s remotely controlled self-advancing roof support system is piped by close...

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  2. Working for Piece Work Wages (1987 Video)

    Director
    Phyliss Waught
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videoassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Most of the 10,000 workers in the Toronto garment industry are migrant women and most of these work for low piece work wages, accompanied by high production quotas and poor working conditions. These women...

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  3. Historical Timeline

    Date
    30 May 2019, 11:11
    Author
    BUFVC-user43468
    Post Type
    Page

    Explore the history of women in British film and television production with our interactive timeline. [timeline_multiple title="ACT/T Timeline"] 1927 Cinematograph Films Act The Cinematograph Films Act...

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  4. Prisons Progress (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Law
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min.

    Examines the development of the Prison Service, looking at prison reform, the bringing of prisons under the Prison Commission’s control in 1878, and the 1949 Criminal Justice Act, which ushered in a more...

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  5. Conduct at Work. Part 7: The Hothouse (1981 Video)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min.

    Deals with a complaint to a catering manager from his staff and shop steward regarding poor working conditions, the events leading up to this and the subsequent meeting.

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  6. MACARTHUR’S JAPAN

    Date released
    1949
    Series name
    The March of Time 15th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352299
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: One of the biggest tasks facing the Command of the American occupation forces in Japan is the attempt to establish a wholly new concept of national life in the land bound for...

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  7. EAST MIDLANDS LOOKS WEST

    Date released
    Jul 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346177
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the reconstruction of Cadley Hill Colliery on the western fringe of the East Midlands coalfield to work reserves totalling some 60 million tons NCB Commentary - The old pit at Cadley Hill,...

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  8. HIGH TENSION

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345729
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...

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  9. With Babies and Banners: The Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Lorraine Grey
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Women’s participation in the key strike of the 1930s in the USA. Layoffs, poverty wages, hazardous working conditions and speed-ups were daily realities for auto workers. Women workers also suffered lower...

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  10. Scotland - NOVA SCOTIA

    Date released
    Jun 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346374
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The coal industry in Scotland, and its increasing productivity. NCB Commentary - Scotland’s past - and its plans for the future, have not always been happy. Working conditions in mining were...

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