Z-4195 (stemme af Woody Allen) er en neurotisk arbejdermyre - det midterste barn af ca. fem millioner myrer. Z lider stærkt af at få for lidt opmærksomhed og ønsker blot at være speciel, forklarer han sin beskedent medlidende psykiater. Han får gejst til sin kamp mod konformiteten, da han møder, danser med og forelsker sig i myrekoloniens prinsesse Bala.

Chris vil være mægler. Problemet er bare, at der er 20 andre ulønnede praktikanter, der kæmper om pladsen hos mæglerfirmaet. Oven i hatten skrider Chris' kone og efterlader ham alene med deres lille søn, og det vælter ind af brevsprækken med parkeringsbøder. Chris er nu enlig forsørger, men selv om alt bliver mere og mere sort, og den lille familie må flytte på gaden, er det svært at slå den amerikanske drøm ihjel!

Vagabonden Chaplin er på jagt efter rigdom i Yukon i denne udødelige klassiker. Oplev hvordan vagabonden forvandler elendigheden til en lykkelig stund, da han nyder sit Thanksgiving-måltid bestående af en kogt sko, forvilder sig ind i et hus, der hænger på kanten af en skrænt, indstuderer en snurrig dans og kaster sig ud i alle tænkelige farer med mod og mandshjerte. The Gold Rush er et filmisk vidunder.

I en lille by i USA er den største virksomhed, en bilfabrik, blevet lukket. For at undgå massearbejdsløshed i byen beder man konkurrenterne om at lægge en del af deres produktion ud til fabrikken. Det største problem bliver at finde ud af at arbejde sammen, for konkurrenterne er japanere og deres ideer om hvor meget en amerikansk arbejder bør præstere, og hvor meget han skal have for det, er noget anderledes end man er vant til.

Lennie Small og George Milton er bedste venner i 30'ernes Californien, men de er arbejdsløse, og depressionen lover ikke godt for fremtiden. De korte perioder, hvor det lykkes dem at blive daglejere, bringer Lennies lidt langsomme sind dem ofte i problemer. Så da de hyres til Tyler Ranch, arbejder de hårdt, selv om de behandles urimeligt af den sadistiske formand, Curley. Curley har en smuk, men beregnende kone, der nyder mændenes sultne blikke efter sin - for dem - uopnåelige krop. Men Lennie forstår slet ikke reglerne i hendes spil, og hans lidt naive kærlighed til hende kommer til at koste dem alle dyrt.

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

A crew on a remote construction site are plagued by a series of bizarre mishaps. As the incidents turn more and more savage, it becomes clear that the sole link to the deadly events - is a 50-ton bulldozer.

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.

Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren't comfortable around her and she's completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie's help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.