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The Skilled Worker
195829 min 32 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Morten Parker
Production: Nicholas Balla
Script: Morten Parker
This film examines the inroads of automation on whole areas of satisfaction and reward in work, as exemplified in the story of a craftsman who finds his carefully acquired manual skills displaced by a machine.
Availability
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Subject categories
- Work and Labour Relations > Automation and Technological ChangeLabour Relations
Credits
- director
- Morten Parker
- script
- Morten Parker
- commentary
- Morten Parker
- executive producer
- Nicholas Balla
- camera
- John Spotton
- sound
- Claude Pelletier
- editing
- Douglas Davidson
- sound editing
- David Green
- Malca Gillson
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- H.D. Woods
- music
- Malca Gillson
Awards
- Special MentionInternational Labour Film Festival of the International Labour Film Institute