Casino-eigenaar Willie Bank staat op het punt om in Las Vegas een groot casino/ hotel te openen. Maar als Bank dan Reuben Tishkoff belazert en Reuben hierdoor met hartproblemen in het ziekenhuis komt te liggen, besluiten Danny Ocean en de rest van de bende om wraak op Bank te nemen. Ze besluiten om er voor te zorgen dat de opening van Bank's casino uitloopt tot een grote ramp, zodat Bank veel geld zal verliezen. En daarnaast probeert de groep ook nog om de kostbare en tevens zwaarbewaakte diamanten, die Bank heeft gewonnen met zijn vorige hotels, te stelen.
Het is 1968. Rita woont in Dagenham en werkt net zoals veel lokale vrouwen bij de Ford fabriek. Wanneer zij ontdekken dat hun mannelijke collega’s meer betaald krijgen dan zij, komen ze in opstand. Met humor, goed verstand en moed nemen de vrouwen het op tegen de directie, hun echtgenotes, de mannelijke werknemers en uiteindelijk de overheid.
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle
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 their fair share and are fighting for an income that also gives them room to live. In October 1956, 34,000 metalworkers in the shipyards and factories of Schleswig-Holstein walk off the job to fight for justice and their dignity. This strike is still regarded as the toughest and longest in Germany. Employers and politicians stand in the strikers' way.
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Negenhonderd geïmmigreerde landarbeiders besluiten een dubieuze strijd aan te gaan met de landeigenaren van appelboerderijen in Californië. De arbeiders groeperen zich waardoor ze sterker en angstaanjagender zijn. Onder leiding van de idealistische Jim Nolan wordt de staking gevoerd. Zijn motto is nooit opgeven of knielen.
Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and his wife win the jackpot of the national lottery. Antoine will invest his gain to try and safe the factory.
Om te protesteren tegen de slechte werkomstandigheden besluit een groep arbeiders over te gaan tot een staking. De groep stakers breidt zich snel uit, maar de werkgevers blijven alle eisen weigeren, en de overheid is bereid tot geweld over te gaan.
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Chaplin speelt de rol van David, een klusjesman die achter de schermen van een film allemaal aparte en unieke zaken moet oplossen. Zo is er een meisje dat verkleed als jongen stiekem op de set werkt en is er een groep voormalige werknemers die met een bom wraak willen nemen op de studio.
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.
Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.
A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.
Directed by Martin Berger.