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The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, NY, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.
No subject could be more important...not only for New York, but for all American cities. This is the most lucid explanation of America's economic self-crippling and the direction to take to overcome it.
Jane Jacobs, Author
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Made in Brooklyn has even more resonance today than it did when first released over a decade ago. Manufacturing clearly matters, and this film shows us how we must nurture it to rebalance, strengthen and sustain our local economies.
Tom Angotti, Professor, Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
A seamless document of urban change that I am happy to use in my classroom again and again. It is accessible and provocative to undergraduate and graduate students alike.
Sharon Zukin Professor of Sociology City University of New York
I screened your documentary with admiration. We don't see many films like this, and I wish we did.
Bill Moyers
TV Host, Author
A love letter to the people who make New York crackle.
Village Voice
AWARDS & SCREENINGS:
- PBS Television Network
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Best of Category, Birmingham Educational Film Festival
