Movies: Worker s rights
- 1987
Matewan (1987)
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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the...
- 2008
A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
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25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, quickly rising through the ranks of the compan...
- 1978
I've Got to Live... (1978)
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The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel south. His wife Karin and the children will stay in the village until further notice. Nils starts working...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
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For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...
- 2013
Until Tomorrow, Comrades (2013)
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Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives....
- 2011
Triangle: Remembering the Fire (2011)
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On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story building, 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls - were burned alive or forced to ju...
- 2021
The Devil’s Fire (2021)
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THE DEVIL'S FIRE is an original documentary from WSKG Public Television and filmmaker Brian Frey. Utilizing never-before-seen photographs and investigative archival material, the film tells the story behind the Binghamton Clothing Company's charismat...
- 2024
Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik (2024)
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Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be looking up. The workers want the...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel (2016)
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Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa....
- 1963
Tragic Jungle (1963)
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In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments....
- 1988
Love, Women & Flowers (1988)
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Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia....
- 2016
Migrant Dreams (2016)
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When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises...
- 2019
Conversations with Turiansky (2019)
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Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays the son of immigrants, the engineer passionate about the mystery of electricity, the man in love, t...
- 1988
Radium City (1988)
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Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint....
- 1966
Golgotha (1966)
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Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they'...
- 2009
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress (2009)
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The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demo...
- 2005
3.87 (2005)
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During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them....
- 1961
Esta tierra es mía (1961)
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The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages....
- 1991
Un homme de Parole (1991)
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- 2004
Poor-Land (2004)
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A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland....