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Class Matters: Tapping Working-Class Strengths at the UW-Extension & Colleges (#18910)

Posted by on 30. Nov, 2011 in Diversity, Socioeconomic Status

4/16/07 videoconference coordinated by the UWEX & UW Colleges Status of Women’s Committee and UW System Women’s Studies Consortium and Women and Science Program.  Features Betsy Leondar-Wright, a leading consultant and writer on the topic of building alliances across classes who speaks about ways to create a more inclusive workplace and suggests ways to better understand and serve our diverse clients. (2007) - DVD  (55:00)

Climbing the Down Escalator: Working Poor in America  (#17991)

Posted by on 30. Nov, 2011 in Poverty, Socioeconomic Status

Award-winning videos made as a result of research in St. Joseph County, South Bend, Indiana, of persons who have jobs, but do not earn enough to stay above the poverty line. Demonstrates that the working poor are not a single, predictable group of individuals, but have highly diversified personal and household characteristics and job experiences. Package includes both long (26:00) and short (13:00) versions of the video. (1994) – TWO VHS VIDEOS, PRINT MATERIALS.

People Like Us: Social Class in America (#18782)

Posted by on 30. Nov, 2011 in Socioeconomic Status

An entertaining and poignant introduction to socioeconomic class in America.  Through interviews with a variety of people from different classes People Like Us raises questions about the ways, large and small, in which Americans classify each other, how our inherited social class affects our self-perceptions and our expectations, and how race and other factors complicate an already complex arrangement of social distinctions in our society. (2001) – VHS VIDEO (124 min), TEACHER’S GUIDE.

Waging a Living: Working Overtime in Pursuit of the Elusive American Dream (#18894)

Posted by on 30. Nov, 2011 in Poverty, Socioeconomic Status

An unwavering look at America’s working poor – people who work hard and play by the rules, but never seem to get ahead.  Over a period of three years, follows four hard-working individuals as they strive for their piece of the American Dream but find only low wages, dead end jobs, and a tattered safety net in their way.  Brings the disturbing reality of the working poor into the light of day with a mix of facts about poverty and social injustice and the personal testimony of real-life workers. DVD, DISCUSSION GUIDE (31p). (2005) - DVD  (85 min.)