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Documentary ‘Shock Therapy Production’, Israel |
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The documentary about the Wisconsin programme (also known as From Welfare to Work) is the story of a society undergoing privatisation. The paradox of the programme is that the “chronically unemployed” join the “flexible” labour market managed by manpower agencies, and as a result of the “improvement” in their status (from unemployed to employees) they become even poorer. Their right to benefits is dependent on their agreeing to work in exploitative conditions; thus they work with a knife at their throat. The film will expose the human puzzle as it moves between the optimistic and affluent world of the programme’s operators and the hopeless world of the programme’s participants. It will demonstrate the changes that Israel is undergoing, from a society of solidarity to one of glaring social inequalities.
Contact: Mrs Roni Ben Efrat
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