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Sea Devils 5 season, Dockworkers' Congress Episode

An anti-union film. Stamps upon stamps.

Three Sides

In June 2009, Prime Minister V.V. Putin visited the small town of Pikalyovo in the Leningrad region to investigate the ongoing dispute between the owners of three factories.

Kill the Irishman

The film chronicles the rise and fall of Danny Greene. He worked as a longshoreman on the Cleveland docks, until being chosen to serve as interim president of the International Longshoremen's Association in 1961.

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D’Oro Strike

Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain

Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers

A vivid rendering of farm work and the world of the farm worker, Trampling Out the Vintage is a dramatic reappraisal of the political trajectory of Cesar Chavez

Reagan

A biography of US President Ronald Reagan, one stage of whose life and political career involved many years of leading the American Guild of Movie Actors union. The film examines various opinions about him expressed by colleagues, historians, supporters, and family, combined with archival footage, unseen interview excerpts, and comments from Reagan…

Ni Dios, ni patrón, ni marido / Neither God, Nor Master, Nor Husband

In 1896, Virginia Bolten, a well-known thirty-year-old anarchist, arrives in Buenos Aires, where she meets her friend Matilde, who, along with other women, works at Genaro Volpon’s textile mill under the harsh conditions of the time. Matilde, Filomena, Rosalía, and other mill workers gather around Virginia to carry out an old project of hers: to publish…

Europe : Histoire de la classe ouvrière / Europe: History of the Working Class

4 episodes. For 300 years, the working class has been a driving force in the history of European countries, through revolutions, wars, and social progress.

Les Molex, des gens debout

This documentary follows the workers of the Molex factory in Villemur-sur-Tarn as they fight against the closure of their plant after the 2008 financial crisis. It is a record of a collective struggle for dignity, justice, and the future of work.

Many Straws Make a Nest: Proletarian Unrest in Delhi’s Industrial Belt / Die Strategie der Strohhalme: Proletarische Unruhe im Industriegürtel von Delhi

Over the past twenty years, Delhi has become one of the world’s largest industrial centers. Four to five million industrial workers in Delhi’s industrial belt, many recruited from poorer rural regions, risk their health for wages that barely support their families.

Dark Side of the Black Sea

The Black Sea is known with its holiday resorts, pretty fishing boats and people. But, for seafarers, it has not been associated with these beauties for a long time.

Workers Republic

What would you do if your boss gave you three days’ notice that your workplace was closing, leaving you unemployed in a recession and without the severance pay required by law? In December 2008, 260 laid-off workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago occupied their closing factory for six days and refused to leave until the owners and creditors…

Immigrant Nation!

The film is dedicated to the struggle of American immigrants for their rights between 2006 and 2009. Among other stories, it focuses on Elvira Arellano, a single mother from Chicago who fought against her deportation.

Made in Dagenham

The film tells the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford factory in Dagenham, near London, where 187 female sewing machinists stopped work in protest against gender discrimination. It was during this time in the UK that the issue of equal pay for men and women was first raised, eventually leading to the Equal Pay Act two years later.

The Zero Hour / La hora cero

In Caracas in 1996, a medical strike takes place. Parca (Zapata 666), a self-described Grim reaper[1] and regular sicario,[2] brings a pregnant injured woman (Amanda Key) to his gang; the locals are unsympathetic to the doctors' reasons for strike and kidnap a doctor (Erich Wildpret) from the picket line, but the child is born in the back of a car.

El renacer de la huelga obrera en Chile: El movimiento sindical en la primera década del siglo XXI / The Rebirth of the Workers' Strike in Chile: The Trade Union Movement in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century

This valuable, illuminating, and indispensable publication from the end of the 2000s is a major sociological and historiographical study for understanding the transformations of Chile’s world of work at the turn of the century. Published by ICAL with production by LOM, the volume analyzes the resurgence of work stoppages and workers’ new repertoires of…

End of Representation: Emmely and the Retail Strike / Ende der Vertretung: Emmely und der Streik im Einzelhandel

The film was made during the longest collective bargaining dispute in German retail up to that point. When employers announced cuts to evening and night-work bonuses despite rising profits, many already precariously employed workers went on strike.

Hands off! / Hände weg von der Officina!

an impressive documentary about the successful fight against the closure of the workshops. On March 7, 2008, the SBB management announced the closure of the Bellinzona workshops.

They were 100.000 People /100 Bin Kişiydiler Belgeseli

1990-91 Big Mining Strike and the march of Ankara 100 thousand people, the documentary, the Turkish working class history sheds light on a period of the history of the work.

International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present

A definitive eight-volume reference work covering five centuries of protest and revolution in the modern era of mass movements. The encyclopedia examines major uprisings and protest movements across the world, the ideas and activists behind them, and the ways in which these struggles developed.

Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis

Kari Lydersen tells the story of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago who, in December 2008, occupied their factory after the company abruptly shut it down, leaving them without jobs, health care and legally mandated severance pay. The workers, members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Local 1110, won…

Capitalism: A Love Story

Danny Greene: The Rise and Fall of the Irishman

Centring on the 24 days of the first-ever strike at Lakeside, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together and adapting to change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai, who escaped war in Sudan, wears an African shirt and a cowboy hat, and affirms his Canadian identity as well as his determination to fight for his rights.

New in Town

A witty tearjerker comedy. Businesswoman Lucy Hill from sunny Florida travels to the small town of New Ulm in snow-covered Minnesota to carry out mass layoffs at a food processing plant.

The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Truck:_Closing_of_a_GM_Plant

Why David Sometimes Wins : Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement

Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce.

24 City / Er shi si cheng ji

Workerism in the 1960s. From “Quaderni rossi” to “classe operaia” / L’operaismo degli anni Sessanta. Da «Quaderni rossi» a «classe operaia»

A documentary history of Italian workerism, from Quaderni rossi to classe operaia. Edited by Giuseppe Trotta and Fabio Milana, it brings together mostly unpublished documents from 1959–1968, thirteen participants’ testimonies, images, a chronology and bibliography, with an introductory essay by Mario Tronti.

Dockers and Detectives

Long unavailable but in demand, this pioneering study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Baron and James Hanley, as well as distinguishing distinct regional literary cultures and narrative styles still existing in Britain. Dockers and Detectives…

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Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories

The lavaca collective documents Argentina’s worker-run factories and their struggle for social change. With a foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis.