Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town's residents is the backdrop for the film. Jutra makes his sympathies clear in a few scattered scenes, but he is mainly interested in the personal relations which the economics lie behind. The film's secondary plot takes up the life of Joe Poulin (Lionel Villeneuve), worker at the asbestos mine, who can take the tension and degradation of his job no longer. He quits, and soon sets out for his old job at a lumber camp. Facing nature alone, unfettered by machinery, he will lead, a romantic spirit would suggest, the rustic existence he is suited...
...BULK of the film is both lively and straightforward. Scenes of Benoit's often playful, often serious life at the general store (where Jutra himself plays another worker), the warm portraits of Antoine (Jean Duceppe) and Aunt Cecile (Olivette Thibault) drinking together--these could be excised and shown separately and would still be sensitive scenes. But a film made of these scenes would be one-sided, and this film is not. The gentleness of the store contrasts with Benoit's harsh winter ride with Antoine on an undertaking job far from the town. Antoine's jovial drinking in his store...
...down as a physical worker [the Polish term for blue-collar worker]." Then, returning to the witness: "Have you indulged in debauchery...
...Ratledge, Tsumeb's general manager, stated in March 1971 that the average black wage was $28 per month with a minimum of 70 cents per day ($21 per month). The lowest paid white worker, who supervised laborers and handled explosives, received starting wages of $444 per month...
...case, though something like the latest reform is obviously needed, it hardly comes to grips with some of the most serious Soviet economic woes. Despite vast expenditures for new plants and equipment, the average Soviet worker produces less than half as much per hour as his American counterpart. Prime reasons: some technological lags and socialist limits on rewards for individual effort. The government recently doubled individual production bonuses and created cash prizes as high as $200,000 to be divided among workers in factories that have high productivity rates. But the biggest incentive-regular wages-will be virtually frozen...