Bread and Roses (film)
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Bread and Roses is a film directed by Ken Loach, starring Adrien Brody. Released in 2000, the film deals with the struggle of poorly paid janitors in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionise.
The film is critical of inequalities in the US, health insurance in particular is highlighted and it is also claimed in the film that the pay of janitors and other low paying jobs has declined in recent years.
The film's name, "Bread and Roses", derives from the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Though the phrase comes from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim, it is commonly associated with the Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities, led to a large extent by women, under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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| Ken Loach | |
|---|---|
| 1960s | Poor Cow | Kes |
| 1970s | The Save the Children Fund Film | Family Life | Black Jack |
| 1980s | The Gamekeeper | Looks and Smiles | Which Side Are You On? |
| 1990s | Fatherland | Hidden Agenda | Riff-Raff | Raining Stones | Ladybird Ladybird | Land and Freedom | A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership | Carla's Song | The Flickening Flame | My Name Is Joe |
| 2000s | Bread and Roses | The Navigators | Sweet Sixteen | Ae Fond Kiss... | Tickets | The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
