Keyword: Worker S Rights

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company...

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Striking images, rare archival footage and interviews underpin this analysis of Canadian mining companies' profits, impact on the environment and on...

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy, he’s...

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom,...

When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic...

A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.

When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would...

A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the...

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the...

As Yugoslavia begins to unravel, the workers of industrial complex at Rakovica struggle to survive inside a system that once promised dignity and...

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for...

One hundred years after the assassination of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), we look back at the struggles of this pioneer of the...

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

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?...