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Occupation: A Film About The Harvard Living Wage Sit-In, 2002

 Item — Case: 1, Object: 131

Scope and Contents

An in depth recount of the living-wage sit-in at Harvard University, where students, community members, labor unions, and underpaid university workers banded together to successfully raise the living wage over a 2 week period. Directed by Maple Razasa and Pacho Velez for Enmasse Films, narrated by Ben Affleck.

Dates

  • Other: 2002

Conditions Governing Access

Selections from the IRLE Audiovisual Collection are available at the our Memory Work vimeo: https://vimeo.com/memoryworkla

Additional videos and original recordings are housed in the offices of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment in the Ueberroth Building (10945 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024) and are only available upon request by the researcher. For inquiries about accessing our collections, contact IRLEarchive@irle.ucla.edu.

Extent

1 Videocassettes (VHS)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Spanish; Castilian

Repository Details

Part of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) Archive Repository

Contact:
10945 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90095-1478 U.S.