Cool Tools Highlights ‘Workingman’s Death’
29th March 2008
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With the annual Workers Memorial Day commemoration coming up next month, the AFL-CIO Cool Tools selection is highlighting "Workingman's Death," a movie documenting six of the most dangerous, deadly and exploitive jobs on the planet. Filmmaker Michael Glawogger says he
"wanted to make a movie where you sit in the cinema and actually feel the weight on your back."
That's exactly what he did with "Workingman's Death," a harsh documentary about manual labor around the world. He shows us Ukrainian miners digging for coal in mine shafts only 16 inches wide, Nigerian slaughterhouse workers surrounded by animal blood and stench, and Pakistanis who dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal with little more than their bare hands.