The General

Series: History of the Motion Picture Series

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Sterling Educational Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 8Aug60 · LP43989 (Jan-Jun 1975) Copyright holder: Gregstan Enterprises, Inc

Description: The GeneralFollows the lives of workers, many of them women, in the garment and electronics industries in special export processing zones in Mexico and the Philippines. Explains how, in order to cut manufacturing costs, American corporations have hired workers outside the United States. Notes that working conditions in offshore plants are in general considerably more hazardousin comparable factories in the United States.

Complete Record: The General Follows the lives of workers, many of them women, in the garment and electronics industries in special export processing zones in Mexico and the Philippines. Explains how, in order to cut manufacturing costs, American corporations have hired workers outside the United States. Notes that working conditions in offshore plants are in general considerably more hazardousin comparable factories in the United States.