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American Jobs is a personal investigation of the "jobless recovery." In the first six months of 2004, Director Greg Spotts visited nineteen cities and towns across the US, interviewing workers who had recently lost their jobs due to low-wage foreign competition. His heartfelt documentary reveals families and communities left behind by the brave new world of Outsourcing and Offshore Manufacturing. The film explores both blue-collar and white-collar occupations, interviewing workers in the garment, software, aerospace and textile industries. In their own words, the workers and their families describe their personal struggle to retrain for an uncertain future, and share their concerns about the health of the American Dream.

In addition to sharing the stories of American workers, American Jobs demonstrates how the NAFTA-inspired movement of manufacturing plants to low-wage countries has established a template that is now used to shift high-skilled white-collar work to India and other countries. The final segment of the film explores the recently signed Central American Free Trade Agreement, which faces a high-profile battle in Congress during the first months of 2005.

American Jobs is a nonpartisan film and was entirely self-funded by Spotts, who has been touring the country showing his documentary at Universities and Union halls. In addition to the displaced workers, the documentary features interviews with students, economists, academics and politicians, including US Members of Congress Sherrod Brown, (D-OH) Donald Manzullo, (R-IL) Rosa DeLauro, (D-CT) Robin Hayes, (R-NC) and Hilda Solis, (D-CA).

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