Livelyhood
"Planet
Work" Show Segments (Part 1) August 31:
Walk
a Mile in My Shoes (US Shoes and World Report). In
a tiny town in Maine, we'll meet the CEO of New Balance
who is trying to make sure at least some of his shoes
are made in the United States, and a shoe manufacturing
worker who has lost numerous jobs to global flight, but
finally landed at a high tech plant she hopes is here
to stay.
I
Guess We Can't Have Lunch. We'll meet coworkers whose
desks are half a world apart. Jim writes code at Novell's
world headquarters in Provo, Utah and his coworker sleeps
while he works, then takes over the project at 10:00pm
(Utah time) at the company office in Bangalore, India.
Assignment
Sao Paulo. In sprawling Sao Paulo, a twenty-something
Fulbright scholar from California begins his stint in
Brazil working with businesses developing socially responsible
policies.
The
Slow Threat (You are how long you eat). Livelyhood
travels to a small Italian town where a worldwide plot
to "slow life down" is being hatched. The Slow Food Movement
based in Bra, Italy began as satire in the 1980s when
a McDonald's opened in Rome.
Chef
Tom Goes to Siberia and Tries to Save the World. A
Seattle Chef says he's seen the face of hunger in a Siberian
orphanage. He's got a plan that encourages high-end food
consumers to pitch in with gourmet spending power to help
feed needy kids.
"Planet
Work" Show Segments (Part 2) September 7:
World
Wide Will. Livelyhood host Will Durst explores his
viability in the global comedy and TV market. He begins
with a research trip to Washington DC to ask a master
linguist if technology can help us overcome the language
barrier Home and Away. GiGi Wang, an Asian-American mom,
transforms herself into a high-powered business consultant.
Will Durst guides us through multiple time zones as this
globe-trotting mom starts and ends her days in different
countries.
Geek
Corps Diaries. We follow three Americans who travel
to Ghana to share their skills and help lay the infrastructure
for emerging businesses. We see their adventure unfold
from preparatory meetings in Massachusetts to moments
during their two-month stay in Ghana and back home again.
Hands
Across the Equator: Trade. Livelyhood sits
in on a different kind of trade meeting, as union workers
from the United States meet with their counterparts in
Brazil. Their goal is to come up with new ways to work
together, just like their corporate counterparts. Additional
publicity materials, promotional photos and a color logo
are available upon request.
Livelyhood
is produced by The Working Group, a non-profit company
that has produced "We Do The Work," an award winning
public television series, and "Not In Our Town I and
II," two PBS documentaries about communities around
the country fighting hate crimes and intolerance. Patrice
O'Neill is Executive Producer. It is presented by KQED
in San Francisco, CA and is part of the PBS Democracy
Project. Major funding has been provided by UAW-Daimler
Chrysler National Training Center, United Airlines. Livelyhood
is designed to encourage viewer feedback in its digital
lunchroom www.pbs.org/livelyhood
and at info@livelyhood.org.
