Books and films

Billy Elliot

Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike, a father and his eldest son fight for the working class, while the youngest son has a passion for ballet and uses every opportunity to learn a new pas. Parallel to the great miners' battle, a dramatic fight occurs within the family — the elders see Billy's choice as an…

Bread and Roses

A young Mexican woman, Maya, arrives in the U.S. illegally.

Harlan County War

The story is based on real events in the mountain region of Kentucky. Ruby's husband works for a mining company in a small town and nearly dies in an underground accident.

The Replacements

The film is based on the well-known conflict between the players of the National Football League (NFL) and team owners in 1987. The players initiated a strike, even joining the cheerleading teams.

Cradle Will Rock;

Marc Blitzstein, a composer, finishes his work on a provocative musical called The Cradle Will Rock.The infamous director Orson Welles decides to direct it. However, the authorities, frightened by strikes and socialist sentiments in society, banned the musical from being staged in the Federal Theatre.

Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919

On May 15, 1919, the largest labour uprising in Canadian history saw 25,000 people, virtually every working man and woman in Canada's third largest city, walk off their jobs. Winnipeg was paralyzed.

Human Resources

The story centers around a young intern who is doing a placement in the management of a large company. The more successful his work becomes, the worse his relationships with those around him, his family, and former friends get.

From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class

During the first half of the twentieth century, many young intellectuals and reformers sympathized with the aspirations of working people and supported the struggles of the labor movement. Powers Hapgood (1899–1949) was one of the most colorful and recognizable symbols of this crucial historical relationship.

Portraits from the History of Türk-İş / Türk-İş Tarihinden Portreler

Humpback Bridge-98

In the summer of 1998, the miners arrived directly to the lawn in front of the White House in Moscow where Prime Minister S.V. Kiriyenko and his cabinet were meeting.

Defying the Law

On July 14, 1946, a group of steelworkers poured out of Hamilton's Playhouse Theatre and set up pickets around the country's largest steel mill. Their action sparked one of the most important strikes in our country's history--a strike which many consider to be the birth of the modern Canadian labour movement.

Seinfeld, Sesong 9, episode 10 - THE STRIKE

Strikes are of course a serious thing, but they can also be hilariously funny, like in the Seinfeld episode “The Strike,” where Kramer goes on strike!

The Fight in the Fields

A large two-hour film traces the entire history of the United Farmworkers union (UFW) and its founder, Cesar Chavez, from his birth in Arizona to the creation of the union, the collective struggle for workers' rights, and up to the current leaders of UFW.

The Road Taken

The documentary that explores the history of Black railway porters in Canada, focusing on their struggle against discrimination and their fight for dignity, fair treatment, and better working conditions. Through archival footage and interviews, the film highlights how these men—many of whom were immigrants from the Caribbean—formed one of Canada’s first…

Vakbeweging in perspectief / The Labor Movement in Perspective

Poznan 56

In June 1956, events unfolded in Poznań that would forever be etched in the history of the labor movement in Poland and Eastern Europe. These events involved mass demonstrations by striking workers and anti-communist protests, which were suppressed with the help of tanks after fierce resistance from the strikers.

Brassed Off

The story is set in a small British town during the major miners' strike of 1984-1985. Inspector Gloria Mullins from the administration arrives to assess the scheduled closure of the mine and the lockout of a thousand miners.

The Flickering Flame

Ken Loach's film tells the story of one of the toughest and longest labor conflicts in the United Kingdom at the end of the 20th century—the Liverpool dockers' strike, which began in 1995. The strike took place in an atmosphere of media silence and conditional support from the union, ultimately ending in the dismissal of 500 workers and the signing of an…

A. Philip Randolph For Jobs and Freedom

A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom is a documentary about the life and legacy of A.

The Uprising of '34

A grim account of the 22-day General Textile Strike in September 1934, which involved 400,000 workers across the southern United States and ended in bloody suppression and the crushing of the union. This defeat left such a profound mark on the textile workers of the South that the very word "union" became a curse, and veterans of the strike refused to…

Bread Peace Freedom 1943/1945

Passionate testimonies still emerge from the memory of the Resistance: the film, made in collaboration with the trade union movement, collects some of them to delve deeper into the history of workers' participation in the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascist rule. It is a struggle that explodes from underground already in 1943, with fascism still in…

Fredriksson's factory - The Movie

Norwegian feature film based on the same role characters as the comic book Fredriksson's factory , which went on NRK TV in the early 1990s. The film was launched in Norway on December 26, 1994 .

Death Like a Slice of Bread / Śmierć jak kromka chleba

The film is based on the events of December 16, 1981, which followed the imposition of martial law by the communist regime in Poland against the Solidarity trade union. On that day, numerous police and military units brutally suppressed a miners' strike at the Wujek coal mine in Silesia, resulting in violent clashes that left 9 miners dead.

Reverted

Set in autumn 1981 in Katowice, Tomasz, a worker at a thermal power plant, is sent by the director to a large "Solidarity" demonstration as a party observer. Tomasz is swept up by the scale of the rally and the singing of songs.

Germinal

The movie was directed by Claude Berri, it stars famous actors Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou.

The Cloak of Casanova

A Soviet trade union delegation arrives in Venice. Among the "best workers," the film's heroine stands out as a "white crow." The Russian intellectual Chloe falls in love with an Italian named Lorenzo, unaware that he is a con artist and a gigolo who courts wealthy women...

The Workers’ Movement in Turkey / Türkiye'de İşçi Hareketi

Focusing his research on the period from 1908 to 1984, the author examines the years 1908–1922–1923–1960–1980 and 1980–1984 in separate chapters.

The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918

This detailed social history is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities

At the River I Stand

Daens

Father Adolf Dans, a Catholic priest, comes to the textile town of Aalst. Here, child labor is widespread, working conditions are awful, the pay is meager, the poor have no voice, and the church stands with the bourgeoisie.