Labor Movies

Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her...

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

It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.

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

Ji-eun, a part-timer at a convenience store, will be able to receive her much-awaited severance pay tomorrow.

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...

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

A desperate, but not very bright, young man tries to find where he parked his car in a massive underground parking garage in Cannes, France when his...

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...

In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

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

Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and...

This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...