Books and films

Harvesting Anger: Lemons in Tucumán / COSECHANDO BRONCA: El limón en Tucumán

The documentary "Harvesting Anger: Lemons in Tucumán" exposes the harsh reality for citrus industry workers in Tucumán. Argentina is the world's leading exporter of industrial lemon products and the eighth largest exporter of fresh lemons.

MADYGRAF: Traces of a Future / MADYGRAF: Huellas de un futuro

The documentary Madygraf: Footprints of a Future offers a glimpse into the history of the iconic worker-run factory Madygraf, formerly the multinational RR Donnelley and before that, the Atlántida printing plant. It was one of the largest printing facilities in Latin America, located in the heart of the Garín industrial park in the northern part of…

The Assembly Line / L'Établi

Sejarah Gerakan Buruh Indonesia / History of the Indonesian Labor Movement

The history of the Indonesian labor movement from the Dutch colonial period (1870) to 2000. This film explores the emergence of the working class, how workers built their organizations, the victories of the labor movement during the Independence era, the destruction of the labor movement under Suharto’s dictatorship, and workers’ resistance in the 1990s.

¡Sí se puede!' - Sindicalismo en Colombia

The documentary "'¡Sí se puede!'" (2023) exposes the harsh reality of Colombia, the world's most dangerous country for activists. It follows the perilous struggles of oil worker Moisés Báron and domestic workers Nohelia Mendoza and Nellys Simarra, who face political violence and extreme inequality.

The Riot 1907 / Sulis 1907

In the early 1900s, Sulitjelma Gruber was the second largest industrial company in Norway. The living conditions for the mining workers were very primitive, working conditions hard and harmful to health.

Working Class Goes to Hell

Workers from a factory that has closed reach out to the supernatural in a struggle for personal dignity.

Drop by drop — there will be a wave!

A film about the everyday work of activists in the "Be Like Nina" union movement. The movement was created after Nina Kozlovskaya wrote on Facebook about working conditions.

Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

Fire Department, Inc

A suburban firefighter’s labor union finds itself under a different kind of fire when the Village Mayor announces he’s privatizing their department to save money. What results is a five year long legal battle with the potential to change labor law for the entire country.

Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried

Examines the 1937 police shooting of striking steelworkers at Chicago’s Republic Steel & the suppressed newsreel film of the incident.

UPS Strike: Lessons from '97

The story of the Teamsters’ successful strike at UPS in 1997.

Sons of the Desert / Hijos del desierto

The story begins in the far north of Chile , around 1907. At that time, a terrible event occurred, known throughout history as the Santa María School Massacre in Iquique .

Ll nous reste la colère / We still have anger

The film about the fight of Poutou and his comrades against the closure of the Ford factory in Blanquefort

The Syndicalist

The true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower when she revealed a secret deal between the state-owned utility Electricité de France and a Chinese power company, which Kearney feared would transfer sensitive nuclear technology from Areva to China…

The Loud Spring: Together out of the Climate Crisis / Der laute Frühling: Gemeinsam aus der Klimakrise

A documentary and animated film about the climate crisis and the political power of workers. It connects climate activism with strikes, trade-union organizing and workers’ self-organization, asking how people can build the power needed for a profound social transformation beyond green capitalism.

Unrest / Unrueh

It tells a fictionalized account of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's 1877 visit to Switzerland, where he gets involved in a labor struggle of watchmaking workers suffering under increasing workplace rationalization and early taylorism.

Enola Holmes 2

Enola opens her own detective agency, but struggles to get clients unlike her famous detective brother Sherlock Holmes. A factory girl named Bessie asks Enola to help find her missing sister Sarah Chapman, labor organizer.

The 1934 Waterfront Strike: Solidarity on the Docks

El gran movimiento / The Great Movement

In present-day Bolivia, Elder takes a week-long trip to La Paz with his young miner friends to demand their jobs back. However, Elder suddenly falls ill, experiencing frequent shortness of breath and difficulty breathing after finding work at a local market.

Arqueología de la Dignidad Obrera / Archeology of the Worker´s Dignity

The documentary gives a voice to organized workers through the eyes of legendary trade union leader, Pepe Pinzón, and his struggle to maintain and save the trade union organization CNT and later the CGTG, especially during those terrible times of persecution and assassination of social, peasant and trade union leaders in Guatemala.

Dear Comrades!

The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962. Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, and a staunch communist.

Bel Karper and Adkotürk Workers' Strike Diar

They entered into a struggle shoulder to shoulder with their women and men. They waved the flag of Tekgıda-İş Union in Çorlu and Çerkezköy, the most important worker basins of Turkey.

Strike 1910 / Grev 1910

The film, which tells the fictional story of a real-life resistance of female silk workers in Bursa against poor working conditions in the Ottoman Empire in 1910, and which has become a part of the whole world, was shot in Turkey and Spain. Kaynak: "Grev" filmi Arabahmet Kültürevi’nde gösterilecek

Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle

Story of the famous 1886-87 Haymarket Affair in Chicago.

Women of Steel

Wollongong, 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks - the city's main employer - working class / migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years.

1968: a Greve de Contagem / 1968: The Counting Strike

In 2018, fifty years had passed since the first workers' strike during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Through testimonies from historians, researchers, and workers who participated in this historic strike in the Industrial City of Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, the documentary reconstructs this episode, which continued…

El año del descubrimiento / The Year of Discovery

In 1992, two major events took place in Spain: the Barcelona Olympic Games and the Universal Exposition in Seville, linked to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of America. Ten years after the rise to power of Felipe González’s PSOE, Spain presented itself to the international community as an energetic, modern, and civilized…

9to5: The Story of a Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9to5:_The_Story_of_a_Movement

Stand!

An immigrant Romeo and Juliet in 1919 battle for love and a better future during a time of social upheaval