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

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?...

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

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

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

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

The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel...

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...

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

A complex web of emotions which unfolds the grounding difference between love & predilection. An underlying, but prominent current of class...

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,...

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first...