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THE PLAN THAT CAME FROM THE BOTTOM UP PART 1

By Steve SPRUNG

unknown - Completed 2018

A plan to avoid job losses at a factory in 1976 becomes
the starting point for an incisive account of our current
and future economic situation.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- unknown
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, PORTUGAL
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 212 mn
- Director(s)
- Steve SPRUNG
- Writer(s)
- Steve SPRUNG
- Producer(s)
- Sylvia STEVENS, Luis CORREIA
- Synopsis
- ‘It’s an insult to our skills and intelligence that we can
  produce a Concorde and not enough powerful heaters for all those old-age pensioners who are dying in the cold.’ A worker at Lucas Aerospace eloquently sums up the core problem of contemporary Western society – one that caters to the interests of a wealthy few. He’s one of the designers of the ambitious strategy proposed
  by the workforce to shift their company’s assets to
  manufacture socially-useful products, which was ultimately undermined by both the government and corporate interests. Director Steve Sprung brilliantly draws their story into the present, delivering it with great intelligence, clarity and civic commitment. The Plan that came from the bottom up is a gripping essay, reflecting on the dark consequences of capitalism on society and proposing an encouraging alternative for a troubling present. Ana David