Coal miners once took caged canaries into the mines. By collapsing and dying, the tiny birds warned of the presence of deadly gases. Today workers themselves have become the canaries for other workers and society as a whole. The film examines lethal industrial-linked disease in factory workers as well as management and official indifference to this problem.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
013356
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Coal mines and mining
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Factories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Factory management
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial accidents
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial management
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial safety
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial sociology
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrialization
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Miners
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Work environment
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Work practice
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Environmentally induced diseases
Documentary
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Industrial relations
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Environmentally induced diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Industrial accidents
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Occupational diseases
Short films
Short films → Short films - United States
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)