Labor Movies

Shedding light on the current debate over immigration reform and the use of "guest workers" in American agriculture, this historical documentary,...

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as...

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

On 9 July 2021, the 422 workers at the GKN factory in Campi Bisenzio near Florence received their dismissal, by email. They immediately met in front...

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to...

An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.

Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant...

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...

4, April, 2014. Worker's who worked in "SaengTak" are get to the struggle to require adjust of working environment for safely food, and guarantied a...