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H-2 worker
- Title
- H-2 worker [videorecording] / produced by Stephanie Black.
- Publication
- New York : First Run/Icarus, 1990.
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- Additional Authors
- Black, Stephanie.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (67 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Black's exposé unveils the mistreatment endured by "H-2 workers," men who journey on guest visas from Jamaica to cut sugar cane in Florida. Responding to the call for economic opportunity, the men arrive in the U.S. only to beome virtual prisoners in overcrowded dormitories. In the vast cane fields, the workers are required to cut a ton and a half of cane an hour in perilous conditions; they are cheated of wages through spurious accounting methods. Black's documentary, filmed clandestinely over a three-year period, combines reggae music with voiceover readings of poignant letters between the workers and their families in Jamaica. Interviews with the cutters, officials of the sugar cane industry and Jamaica's Prime Minister Michael Manley shed light on this hitherto little known colonialist vestige.
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, Stephanie Black; editor, John Mullen; cinematographer, Maryse Alberti.
- Title
- H-2 worker [videorecording] / produced by Stephanie Black.
- Imprint
- New York : First Run/Icarus, 1990.
- Credits
- Producer, director, Stephanie Black; editor, John Mullen; cinematographer, Maryse Alberti.
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- Added Author
- Black, Stephanie.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1918 H