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Radio
Title
Bury Me Deep: Two Hospice Workers Invite Us Into the World of Death and Dying
Year
2011
Transgressing the boundaries of the living and dying on a daily basis, Alison Milne and Michael Schooley travel hundreds of miles around Maine to offer hospice care. Rachel James documents the work that Milne and Schooley do as hospice caretakers and having to make their own boundaries less permeable.
Type
Radio
Title
Searching for Work
Year
2015
At Little River Apparel Factory, individuals with disabilities are given opportunities for work. Kelsey Nichols documents how the AbilityOne program functions at the factory and how advocates for disability rights want all places to offer employment equally.
Type
Radio
Title
A Night In Third Shift
Year
Dec 14th, 2017
Portland, Maine's business tend to close up shop in the early evening. But the third shift and overnight workers of the peninsula are still hard at work. Here is a Saturday night when I got to meet a few of them.
Type
Radio
Title
All in the Family
Year
2015
When the workers at FairPoint Communications went on strike, they supported each other as a community. James Colombo highlights how the workers created their own community of support, and how the strike brought Kimberly Talbot's family closer.
Type
Photography
Title
Norman Collins Photographs
Year
1978
Lynn Kippax Jr. captures photographs of Norman Collins, a workers at O'Hara Fish Corporation.
Type
Photography
Title
Lamont Allen Photographs
Year
1978
Cutting fish since he was nine years old, Lamont Allen Sr. has always worked in the fish business. Lynn Kippax Jr. and Greg Violette profile Allen's life and the work that he performs at O'Hara's.
Type
Photography
Title
Swan's Island: Walter Stinson Photographs
Year
1978
Mark Emerson and others visit Walter Stinson, a resident of Swan's Island to learn about his life. Stinson speaks about his work as a fisherman and working in a factory.
Type
Photography
Title
Nobody Cuts the Same Photographs
Year
1978
At O'Hara's in Rockland, cutting fish is a family affair. Lynn Kippax, Jr. and Sheryl Lane speak to Lamont Allen, Sr. about his experience cutting fish and the cutting process.
Type
Photography
Title
Dirty Job, Clean Money
Year
2010
In the city of Portland, the men and women with the Sanitation Department play a crucial role in keeping the city clean. Cait Wilson captures images of workers with the department.
Type
Photography
Title
Cherry Point Circle
Year
2014
Erin Birney documents the lives of Hispanic workers who stay in Washington County following the blueberry harvest.
Type
Photography
Title
Toss: Portland's Guardians of the Discarded
Year
2001
Emilia Dahlin documents the work of sanitation workers in Portland.
Type
Photography
Title
Strong Enough Photographs
Year
2002
In the small town of Strong, the Strong Wood Products, Inc. toothpick and dowel mill begins manufacturing early each morning. Megan McCune captures images of employees at the factory to highlight their jobs and the work produced at the mill.
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