H-2 worker [videorecording] / produced and directed by Stephanie Black

Additional Titles: Title on container: H2 worker
Published: [New York] : Docurama Films, [2008]
[New York] : Distributed by New Video.
Copyright Date: ©2008
Edition: Standard format.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators: Black, Stephanie (Motion picture director), New Video Group, and Docurama (Firm)

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Language Note

In English with optional Spanish subtitles.

Summary

Investigates the lives of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from World War II through the 1990s. Each year more than 10,000 foreign workers were granted temporary guest worker ('H-2') visas to spend six months cutting sugar cane near Lake Okeechobee.

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ISBN

0767098099
9780767098090

Note

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.
Special features: update on the guest worker program (19 min.); optional audio commentary; short film: "More than luck" (1 min.).
Container erroneously notes run time as 70 minutes.

Creation/Production Credits Note

Cinematography by Maryse Alberti ; edited by John Mullen ; original music by Mutabaruka.

Technical Details

DVD, NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo.

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