Daniel Rudin
  (530) 617-1009
  • WORK
    • Demo
  • ORGANIZED LABOR
    • Letter from the picket line
    • Hunger Strike
    • Pentagon Steel workers stage picket
    • PNP crosses picket
    • Pizza Hut ENDO
    • Workers Find Ways >
      • The BPO worker
      • The domestic helper
      • The OJT student
      • The agency worker
      • The volunteer nurse
      • The factory technician
      • The ship builder
      • The coop worker
      • The farm worker
      • The factory worker
  • INFORMAL LABOR
    • Day Labor
    • Day Labor: St. John's
    • The Working Homeless
    • Proyecto Testimonio
    • El Fortín
    • Doña Irma
  • HOUSING
    • Danger Zone
    • El Fortín: Projects
    • Exile
    • Interrupt the Pipeline
  • SPATIAL MONTAGE
    • Negotiating Documentary Space
    • Day Labor
    • Day Labor: St. John's
    • The Working Homeless
  • People's Media Advocacy, Asia

Day Labor (2012)

“Day Labor” represent its subjects waiting in their respective day-labor sites – individuals, in competition with one another, laboring by waiting. One worker commented to me that it was harder work to wait without finding a job than it was to be physically at work. In “Day Labor,” each worker is paid to wait for the author – and the viewer. We see a series of movements from total alienation and spatial disconnect to more specific, factual statements by the subjects. The viewer, in turn, must share this agonizing waiting with the workers without work...
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