A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Die Fantasien eines Zeitungsstandverkäufers in Kairo kulminieren in seiner Besessenheit von einer Limonadenverkäuferin. Außerdem treibt ein Serienkiller sein Unwesen.
Wir schreiben das Jahr 1907. Die Minenstadt Sulis im norwegischen Nordland war die skandinavische Antwort auf den "Wilden Westen", und die Kupferminen im arktischen Gebirge waren die größten und gnadenlosesten. Der 18-jährige Konrad ist verzweifelt auf Arbeitssuche und wird Bergmann in der lebensgefährlichen Hanken-Mine. Die Arbeitsbedingungen sind brutal, und die Verhältnisse verschlechtern sich, als der zynische Olof Wenström die Macht in der Minengesellschaft übernimmt. Es entwickelt sich ein Aufstand, und die sozialistische Aktivistin Helene Ugland fordert zum Kampf auf. Der Kapitalist Wenström schmiedet unterdessen ganz andere Pläne. Mitten in dem Konflikt steht der junge Konrad. "Sulis 1907" ist inspiriert von wahren Ereignissen und schildert die Eskalation zu dem Aufstand, der Norwegen verändert hat.
Der 19-Jährige Pole Robert ist gerade an die norwegische Küste gezogen. In einer Fischfabrik nahe Trondheim will er genug Geld verdienen, um die Schulden seiner Mutter begleichen zu können. Robert findet schnell Anschluss bei den anderen Polen in Team und verliebt sich in Ivar, den Adoptivsohn des Fabrikeigentümers. Doch während Ivar offen schwul ist, will Robert seine Gefühle lieber geheim halten – aus Angst von der Reaktion seiner Landsleute. Als es in der Fabrik zum Streik kommt, muss sich Robert entscheiden: zwischen dem Geld, das er so dringend braucht, und seiner Liebe zu Ivar.
Pittsburgh, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Als sich der Fabrikantensohn Paul Scott in die Arbeitertochter Mary Rafferty verliebt, stehen die Eltern Kopf. Zuerst behindert nur der soziale Stand das junge Glück, doch als ein Stahlarbeiterstreik ausbricht, werden die Väter des Paares auch noch zu erbitterten Gegnern…
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.
Einfach und schnell Geld verdienen über eine App – das versprechen digitale Dienstleister wie Uber und Deliveroo. Doch die Fahrer und Auslieferer müssen ständig zur Verfügung stehen und haben keinen Feierabend. "Arbeit auf Abruf" zeigt den Alltag der modernen Tagelöhner und wirft einen Blick auf die Zukunft der Arbeit.
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.
The film investigates an industry considered one of the pillars of growth during Kirchnerism in which, during these years, relations and conflicts were drawn between the manufacturers - foreign in its entirety -, the auto parts companies, the Argentine government, the Brazilian one, the union leaderships. -centrally from SMATA-, the workers and the left. The documentary delves into the interests that intersect and the confrontations that originate between the different actors in the chain, which became clear in recent times when the industry, which aspired to reach one million cars manufactured per year, began to regress. The different actors of the "Journey to the Center of Production" are intertwined in the conflict of the auto parts company Gestamp, which opened a dispute regarding who pays for the crisis in the sector and what solutions are seen in that dispute.
There are 200 miserably impoverished people working in the Dongseong Metalworks Factory. Ju Wan-ik is introduced to the forging team as a new member of the team and they all go drinking together to welcome him.
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American economy. Also explored is the educational 'tracking' system for both white and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force, and relations between white and black workers.
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.
‘VIGO 1972’ narrates the events which took place in Vigo in September 1972, when the firing of five Citröen auto workers resulted in the largest general strike in the history of Galicia — with over thirty thousand workers — all of this during the Franco dictatorship in Spain.
A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing themselves. Employees dressed in American football helmets and pads square up with employers' heavies in their bullet-proof vests, resulting in explosive situations. A visit from the Russian tycoon's representative and vice president Joe Biden's arrival further complicates the proceedings.
It was women who closed the gates and launched the Solidarity strike when, on a Saturday in August 1980, workers, satisfied with a raise, stopped their protest and wanted to leave the Gdansk shipyard. If it had not been for the initiative of several determined women, perhaps there would not have been any August 1980 in Polish history. Under martial law, with the men in prisons, the women took on their role. They were not interested neither in joining the union’s power structure, nor in particular posts. The most important thing was their work and its results. When communism in Poland came to an end on June 4, 1989, the vast majority of women in Solidarity disappeared from the political stage. They let themselves be forgotten when their colleagues were taking over the most important posts in power in a free Poland. This documentary by Marta Dzido and Piotr Śliwowski reminds us about these forgotten heroines, giving us a new perspective on the last 30 years of Polish history.
As a result of the negotiation of the agreement in Bazán Ferrol, thousands of workers marched in a demonstration on March 10, 1972. In the midst of the dictatorship, the Armed Police fired on the demonstration, with dozens of wounded and two workers killed: Daniel Niebla and Amador Rey. The film addresses the entire process of penetration of the worker commissions and the communist party into the shipyard, the tensions in the negotiation of the agreement, the events of March 9 and 10 and their international repercussions. as well as the so-called 'Process of the 23' in which the main labor leaders were tried three years later.
An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of workers who demand what is fair for everyone.