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"Documentary from the USA. Michael Moore, defender of the working man, tours 48 states with his book Downsize This!, exposing the greed of Corporate America and challenging CEOs to justify redundancies and outsourcing while company profits soar. Includes interview with Nike chairman Phil Knight."
"Un cinéaste, Michael Moore, parcourt les États-Unis afin d'enquêter sur la situation des travailleurs face aux politiques de rentabilité maximale des grandes compagnies."
"Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"
"Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"@en
"While on a 47-city author tour to promote his book Downsize this on behalf of Random House, Michael Moore visits the corporate offices of companies in each city that are downsizing, laying off workers, using prison labor, and moving jobs overseas, where they employ child labor. He also visits and interviews laid off workers, low-paid workers who are trying to organize, and women whose welfare benefits have been cut. Cities visited include: Centralia, Illinois, home of Payday Candybars (Leaf Centralia); Des Moines, Iowa, where bookstore workers at the local Borders are trying to organize; Rockford, Illinois, where a woman in the book-signing line has just been laid off her job selling Ford automobiles; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Johnson Controls has just closed its Humboldt facility and moved it to Mexico, and where Manpower International, the temp agency, has become the number one employer in the country; Madison, Wisconsin, where he accompanies women whose welfare benefits have just been cut to the office of Governor Tommy Thompson to ask about corporate welfare to General Motors; Minneapolis/St. Paul, where Pillsbury has received 11 million dollars in corporate welfare; Chicago, where he is interviewed by Studs Terkel; Cincinnati, where Proctor & Gamble has laid off 13,000 people since 1993 despite making 6 billion dollars in profits; and Portland, Oregon, where he meets with Philip H. Knight, Chairman of Nike, to ask why Nike shoes are all made in Indonesia by teenage girls paid less than forty cents an hour. When Knight asserts that Americans don't want to make shoes, Moore organizes a large crowd of citizens of Flint, Michigan, who all assert they would like to have jobs making Nike shoes. The Big One is Moore's suggestion for a new name for the United States. Garrison Keillor appears briefly in the Minneapolis/St. Paul sequence."@en
"Il y a dix ans, General Motors fermait une série d'usines de construction automobile dans la ville de Flint, Michigan, où habite Michael Moore. Doté d'un fort potentiel d'indignation et d'un sacré sens de l'humour, celui-ci s'interrogeait : où était donc Roger Smith, le PDG de General Motors, quand Flint devenait une zone économiquement sinistrée ? Aujourd'hui, c'est au reste du patronat américain que s'attaque "The big one". En cherchant la réponse à une autre question fondamentale : à l'heure où les entreprises affichent des bénéfices record, pourquoi le travail devient-il de plus en plus précaire ?"
"Moore is ... searching for an executive - any executive - who will respond to one tough question: if Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"
"Armed with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, Moore is back in the nation's heartland and searching for any executive who will respond to one tough question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"
"Armed with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, Moore is back in the nation's heartland and searching for any executive who will respond to one tough question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"@en
"Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor is searching America's heartland for an execuive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"@en
"A behind-the-scenes video diary of the promotional tour for Moore's book "Downsize this!" He appears at several chain bookstores throughout the nation, signing autographs and delivering wicked political commentary to audiences. Along the way, he stops at various small-town parking lots and malls, gathering brief interviews with assorted Americans. Moore makes several cleverly unexpected visits to people in powerful positions. In Centralia, IL, Moore visits a company who plans to move their factories to Mexico, resulting in massive layoffs. Finally, Nike CEO Phil Knight grants Moore some dialogue."@en
"Michael Moore on a book tour of his book "Downsize this" which criticizes American corporate behavior."@en
"Michael Moore is back in the U.S. heartland, stopping at several chain bookstores throughout the nation, signing autographs and delivering wicked political commentary to audiences. Along the way, he stops at various small-town parking lots and malls, gathering brief interviews with assorted Americans. Moore makes several cleverly unexpected visits to people in powerful positions. In Centralia, IL, Moore visits a company who plans to move their factories to Mexico, resulting in massive layoffs. Finally, Nike CEO Phil Knight grants Moore some dialogue."
"Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"
"Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, is searching America's heartland for an executive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"@en
"Michael Moore is back in the nation's heartland and searching for an executive - any executive - who will respond to one tough question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers?"@en
"Als Michael Moore, Rächer des amerikanischen Mittelstandes, sich auf Lesetour zu seinem Buch "Querschüsse - Downsize This!" quer durch die USA befindet, kommt ihm die Idee, den Menschen, die über Amerika wichtigste Macht - die Grossunternehmen - herrschen, ein paar ganz einfache Fragen zu stellen: Wie kann es sein, dass die Gehälter der meisten Amerikaner in den letzten Jahren kaum gestiegen sind, während die Firmen immer mehr Gewinn abwerfen? Warum lässt Amerikas Vorzeigeunternehmen Nike 99% seiner Schuhe ausserhalb der USA produzieren, während die Arbeitslosenquote im Land steigt? (Quelle: Umschlag)."
"Un cinéaste parcourt les États-Unis afin d'enquêter sur la situation des travailleurs face aux politiques de rentabilité maximum des grandes compagnies."
"Documentaire waarin regisseur Michael Moore tijdens een promotietoer voor zijn boek Downsize this! het zakenleven van Amerika aan de kaak stelt."