Film: Controlling Interest
Friday, 02 Feb 1979 at 12:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
This 1977 film is not only a general guide to the working of multinational corporations but also a powerful indictment of them. It examines the interanitonal implications of American imperialism in Brazil, Chile, and the Dominican Republic. It then brings the problem home to the United States by analyzing the difficulties encountered when union workers in a massachusetts machine tool plant, which had een in the community for 100 years, resisted a pay cut demanded by a multinational which had taken over their factory.Part of the National Affairs Series-America's Economic System: Is It Obsolete?
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