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How about: The Grapes of Wrath (film starring Henry Fonda, dir. John Ford 1940 & novel by John Steinbeck) In Dubious Battle novel by John Steinbeck (about migrant farmworkers rising up against landowners) The Iron Heel by Jack London (about class warfare in turn of the century Calif) The film Matewan (1987, dir. John Sayles about coal miners' strike) El Norte (1983, dir. Gregory Nava) about undocumented worker brother & sister Bread & Roses (2000, dir. Ken Loach) about poorly paid cleaners in an office high rise & their attempts to unionize Blue Collar (1978 dir. Paul Schrader, starring Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor) critique of corrupt union & the workers caught between their union & the plant they work for Norma Rae (1979 dir. Martin Ritt, starring Sally Field) woman attempts to unionize her plant Silkwood (1983, dir. Mike Nichols about Karen Silkwood, with Meryl Streep) Novel Germinal by Emile Zola (1885). There have been 5 film adaptations of this book, most recently in 1993 (French production) with Gerard Depardieu, dir. Claude Berri. Interested in documentary films? How about Barbara Koppel's Harlan County, USA about a Kentucky miners' strike (1976), & American Dream (1991) about the Hormel Foods strike in Texas. Juneko ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **