书籍与电影

The Gama Strike - A Victory For All Workers

In 2005 Turkish workers at the Gama company in Ireland went on strike over the non-payment of wages. With the active assistance of the Socialist Party, they won.

Strike - the Hero of Gdańsk / Strajk – Die Heldin von Danzig

The film portrays the labor movement in Poland over a roughly twenty-year period, from the unrest of the 1960s to the open uprising of the 1980s, led by Lech Wałęsa. The character of Agnieszka Kowalska is based on a real historical figure, Anna Walentynowicz, who, alongside Wałęsa, was one of the founders of the free trade union movement.

Maquilapolis

The exploitation & struggles of Mexican maquila workers in Tijuana.

Rising from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Walkout

Walkout is a 2006 HBO film based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts.

The Last Cry of Madness / Des Wahnsinns letzter Schrei

In 2005, German companies were making record profits while unemployment was rising and unemployed people were increasingly pressured. The film examines how these realities coexist, including forced one-euro work and life below the poverty line under the Hartz IV reform.

邮政解雇的故事 / 郵政クビ切り物語

邮政工人因参加工会斗争而被解雇，后来又被工会抛弃，却坚持抗争了25年。影片揭示邮政私有化背后的强制调岗、过劳死、夜班以及非正式雇佣的增加。 2005年，日本，68分钟。制作：Video Press。

The Heart of the Earth / El corazón de la tierra

Spain, at the end of the 19th century. A powerful English company obtains a concession to exploit the Riotinto mines in Huelva for 30 years.

Twenty Years Is Nothing / Veinte años no es nada

The experience of workers’ self-management at the Numax factory, in the late seventies, was captured in a documentary that the workers themselves decided should be made, and which they commissioned Joaquim Jordà to direct at the moment when the factory was about to close. It was titled “Numax Presents…” (1980).

North Country

After her marriage falls apart, Josie Aimes returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota in search of work. She has two children, and to support them, she is forced to take a job at a mine where nearly all the local men, including her father, work.

Fasinpat

Zanón was a ceramics factory in Argentina's Neuquén Province that went bankrupt after its owner laid off half the workers during the 1999-2002 crisis. When it closed in 2001, former employees took control and reopened it as FaSinPat (Fábrica sin patrones - Factory Without Bosses), becoming one of Argentina's worker-run factories.

Entreatos

In 2002, the Brazilian director João Moreira Salles followed with his crew the candidate Luís Inácio Lula da Silva in his campaign for President of Brazil. The collection of footages in meetings, debates, hotels, airplanes and other places with his political allies and friends and acquaintances have been edited in an interesting documentary about the…

PEÕES / Pawns

The documentary delves into the search for ABC region metallurgists from São Paulo who participated in the largest strikes of the 20th century. The movement changed the face of Brazilian trade unionism, provided the basis for the creation of the Workers Party (PT) and made emerge the figure of leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Take

It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant. By doing this, they embodied the anarcho-syndicalist model.

Rebel Frontier

Of all the immigrant groups that arrived in the United States a century ago, the Finns and the Irish were among the most restless. Both groups moved westward in search of a better life.

Murdered Coca-Cola Unionists in Colombia / Ermordete Coca-Cola-Gewerkschafter

Every year, trade unionists are murdered in Colombia. Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Nestlé play an important role in this.

Waging a Living

Waging a Living is a 2004 documentary film that addresses the issue of the American dream and whether or not hard work will invariably improve your condition. Examining the lives of four Americans in California and the Northeast who work full-time jobs but are still having trouble making ends meet

Where Do You Stand? Stories from an American Mill

The long struggle of textile workers at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, NC to unionize.

West of the Tracks

Wang Bing’s striking three-part documentary West of the Tracks (French title: À l’Ouest des rails) observes the gradual decay of Tie Xi, a vast industrial zone in Shenyang that had flourished during China’s socialist period. Filmed from 1999 to 2001, as the country underwent far-reaching economic transformations at the beginning of the twenty-first…

Eila

A cleaning lady, Aila, is focused on helping her son—she needs money, not trouble. That’s why she didn’t join her colleagues when they went on strike.

An Injury to One

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

The Wire (2 Season)

The Local 1514 of the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen (IBS) leadership, headed by Frank Sobotka, is in Baltimore, Maryland, selling stolen cargo from the port to the Greek mafia and trying to bribe officials to secure funding in the city budget for the expansion of the port terminals. Their lobbying campaign is on the verge of success.

La Huelga de los Locos / Crazy Strike

Documentary about the so-called "Crazy Strike", a strike carried out by members of the Federation of Workers in Naval Constructions-Autonomous (FOCN) between October 1956 and November 1957, the largest of the Argentine working class in the century XX.

Los lunes al sol / Mondays in the Sun

Spanish film offers a raw and realistic portrait of a group of unemployed workers in a coastal city in Galicia. The story follows the lives of these men as they struggle to find work in a collapsing economy, exploring themes such as unemployment, labor alienation, and solidarity among comrades.

10,000 Black Men Named George

During the Depression, jobs were catastrophically scarce. The only job available to Black men was as porters for the Pullman Royal Company.

American Standoff

In this 95-minute drama, we follow the months-long strike of members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (the truck drivers' union) against the freight delivery company "Overnite Transportation." The situation is complicated by the fact that most of the company's workers are non-union, and within the union itself, there is a tense struggle…

Miss Fiat / Signorina Effe

Documentary about Maria Teresa Arisio, employed at Fiat in Turin for 33 years, from 1961 to 1994.

McDonald's: Smile on the Conveyor

The McDonald's Corporation is a global leader in the fast food industry. What is the secret to its success?

The Navigators

Paul, Mike, Len, and Jerry work as railroad repairmen in Yorkshire. Jerry, a union activist, aims to improve the everyday lives of the workers, but management isn’t welcoming.

Dr. Dolittle 2

The film stars Eddie Murphy in the title role. The Black doctor has a miraculous gift—he understands the language of animals.