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  It’s a Living: The Unemployment Line

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Communities, Latinx

  Part of the “It’s a Living” series created by Videopolis based on Studs Terkel’s book Working, which focuses on workers in Chicago. This tape is the record of a single hour at the state unemployment compensation office in Logan Square on the city’s northwest side. People in the line talk about what it’s like to be out of work as they deal with bureaucratic entanglements of their cases. As the program progresses, a family finally receives the check they needed to survive–after eight attempts.

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  It’s a Living: Paper Wagon

  Chicago

  Part of the It’s a Living series created by Videopolis based on Studs Terkel’s book Working, which focuses on workers in Chicago. This tape unfolds practically in real-time in the bowels of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Station. It features discussion and interaction with the workers on newspaper delivery trucks and railway workers wheeling wagons to commuter trains.

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  It’s a Living: When I Was A Worker Like LaVerne

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  A documentary about a day in the life of a Sears mail order catalog facility in Chicago, where the disconnect between workers and management is striking. The management seems to be entirely white and male, while the workers are black and female. The tape was produced as part of the “It’s a Living” series of videos on working in America.

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  It’s A Living

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Judy Hoffman, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Viewers Choice

  A video documentary inspired by Studs Terkel’s book “Working,” featuring six different workers talking about their lives and their jobs, in addition to Studs himself.