# The General

The General Follows the lives of workers, many of them women, in the garment and electronics industries in special export processing zones in Mexico and the Philippines. Explains how, in order to cut manufacturing costs, American corporations have hired workers outside the United States. Notes that working conditions in offshore plants are in general considerably more hazardousin comparable factories in the United States.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1927
- Runtime: 24 min
- By: Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961
- Genres: Comedy, Education, Silent, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thegeneral_201512)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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