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Monday, March
26
5pm - Dinner Served
5:20 - Screening
6:50 - Conversation
Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted
SEATING IS LIMITED
Reservations Required.
Call 312.413.5353
Please notify us at the
time of reservation if any special accomodations
are needed to attend
the event.
Labor Film Series
Working Questions:
1). Do work roles reflect hierarches -like race, class, and gender- or do they create them?
2). How have we transformed from a "working society" into a consumer society?" What kind of society do we want to be?
3). How do we understand the many different divisions of labor - intellectual or manual, blue collar or white collar, masculine or feminine in a socially just world? |
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Dirty Pretty Things is an Oscar nominated dark comedy by Stephen Frears about immigration and labor that is gripping, suspenseful and romantic.
After the film, meet members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to discuss the Behind the Golden Arches: McDonalds Truth Tour taking place in Chicago- an action to fight for fair wages, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize without fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields.
The CIW is a community-based worker organization, whose members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. The CIW strives to build strength as a community on a basis of reflection, analysis, and constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions.
Dirty Pretty Things - Okwe (Chjwetel Ejiofor) is an illegal immigrant working as a night porter at a posh London hotel, who stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder and the hotel's dirty secret. He and Senay (Audrey Tautou), a Turkish chambermaid and fellow undocumented worker venture into the city's seedy underworld to find out what happened and are placed in an impossible dilemma. How can they do the right thing given their precarious status? The film focuses on the usually unseen world of the invisible people who keep our economy running smoothly. Dirty Pretty Things is at once a gripping urban thriller that has political intelligence and compassion.
The Labor Film Series brings people together to discuss important labor issues and how they affect working people. In an age where we are persistently addressed as consumers and not workers, this series of films will create a community of people committed to re-thinking, re-defining, and understanding our relationship to work in a global society. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend this event, please inform us at the time of reservation.
Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program at UIC. 
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