La gare centrale du Caire, microcosme frénétique où les destins et les passions s'entrecroisent. En une journée, Kenaoui, semi-clochard boiteux et frustré recueilli par Madbouli, le kiosquier de la gare, va y connaître l'amour et la folie. Amour pour Hanouma, la vendeuse clandestine qu'il rêve d'épouser depuis longtemps — mais elle ne l'aime pas, lui préférant Abou Serib, un porteur qui veut organiser dans la gare un syndicat. Folie lorsque, aveuglé par ses pulsions, Kenaoui tue à sa place une autre fille, avant de tenter à nouveau d'emporter Hanouma, et d'en être empêché par tous.
New York au début du 20e siècle. Newsies, inspiré par des faits réels, raconte l'histoire de Kelly, le chef d'une bande de jeunes « newsies » en haillons qui rêvent d'une vie meilleure, loin de la dure réalité de la rue. Lorsque deux titans de la presse augmentent le prix de la distribution aux dépens des jeunes livreurs de journaux, Jack trouve la cause qu'il veut défendre. Filmé en direct au Pantages Theater à Hollywood. Contient des scènes de consommation de tabac.
Pittsburgh, XIXe siècle. Issue d'une famille d'ouvriers qui travaillent dans une aciérie, Mary Rafferty devient bonne à tout faire chez les Scott, une des riches familles de la ville. Très vite, la jeune femme attire l'attention de Paul, mais leur histoire d'amour se heurte à un conflit social qui éclate chez les ouvriers.
Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.
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.
In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.
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.
Un travailleur, un syndicaliste et un greffier, sont perchés au sommet d'une tour alors que leur usine se prépare à fermer à cause la crise économique. Ils parlent, se racontent leur histoire et revivent les étapes de la vie italienne. Trente ans d'émotions et de drames, du meurtre de Moro à aujourd'hui. De là-haut et de loin, ils font face à un pays qu’ils ne comprennent plus. Plus qu’un récit sur la mémoire collective et la crise, c’est toute la conscience d’une génération qui se retrouve en haut de cette tour.
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.
Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.
himu, 23 ans, travaille dans une usine textile à Dacca, au Bangladesh. Face à des conditions de travail de plus en plus dures, elle décide avec ses collègues de monter un syndicat, malgré les menaces de la direction et le désaccord de son mari. Ensemble, elles iront jusqu’au bout.
Livraison de repas à domicile, voitures avec chauffeur, participation rémunérée à des sondages : "l'économie des petits boulots" ou "gig economy" génère un chiffre d'affaires planétaire de 5 000 milliards de dollars, en constante expansion. Des États-Unis au Nigeria, de la France à la Chine, un voyage à la rencontre des travailleurs "à la tâche" de l'économie numérique mondialisée.
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.
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.