This paper presents preliminary findings of a study that forms part of a larger cross-cultural investigation on work-family conflict across nine countries. The paper examines the effect of work and family antecedents such as control, involvement, overload, hours spent and support, on work-family conflict. It also explores the antecedent effect of contextual / socio-psychological and cultural variables such as vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism, gender role ideology and monochronic or polychronic time orientation on work-family conflict.

This film reveals the inequities of global capitalism, particularly, the "disposableness" of "cheap" labor from overseas that is embodied in almost all "lucky charms" and "exchange" beads thrown by carnival motorcades during New Orleans' Mardi Gras. A central message this film poses has to do with the somber alienation of dignity surrounding human work which lies behind "global capitalism".