书籍与电影

Still the Enemy Within

Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history's most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners' Strike. No experts.

The Pride

Based on a true story, it depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who seek contact with Welsh miners during the Miners' Strike of 1984-1985 in Britain. They are ready to help, though this area is a harsh backwater where they'd be better off not showing up.

Labor's Turning Point: 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike

Full-length documentary on the 1934 Truckers Strikes that transformed Minneapolis into a union town and prompted passage of the labor law that made collective bargaining government policy.

Mother Jones and Her Children

Pencils Down: The 100 Days Of The Writers Guild Strike

The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.

The Hand That Feeds

Undocumented sandwich workers in NYC struggle against abusive conditions.

Cesar Chavez

In the mid-1960s in California, two groups of Latino organizers formed a union for farm laborers (braceros) from the countless Mexican migrants. One of the groups was led by the legendary César Chávez.

Memory for Repeat Offenders" Workers' Struggle and Militancy in the 1970s

The film offers an original perspective on the 1970s, from its thematic choices to its formal production, which renews previous audiovisual productions on the subject. It recovers a wealth of previously unseen archival footage, featuring the voices of disappeared workers, protagonists of emblematic struggles in the 1970s.

송곳 / Awl

Awl is a Korean social webtoon that explores labor rights and union organizing in a large retail company. The story follows ordinary workers who face unfair dismissals, intimidation, and anti-union tactics by management.

Zhanaozen Diary

The movie depicts the events that followed the bloody suppression of the strike. In 2011, I was an observer for the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and lived with the oil workers in the central square of Zhanaozen, and later attended the trials," says Galym Ageleuov.

Walesa: Man of Hope

The biopic film addresses the development of the trade union movement in Poland during the years 1970-1989, focusing on the participation of electrician Lech Wałęsa in demonstrations and strikes, leading to the creation of the trade union Solidarity and his speech in the U.S. Congress.

For Marks

The movie portrays events from a time of crisis, where the factory owners solved their problems at the expense of workers who have become impoverished in recent years. The core conflict in the film is between the newly emerged capitalists and Soviet-era working class.The factory workers, realizing that their salaries are being reduced, decide to form an…

Zhanaozen: an unknown tragedy

The Home and the Cavity / Malmberget

Life in Malmberget, a mining community in Sweden’s Gällivare municipality, is marked by the prospect of its disappearance. For 250 years, the town’s fate has been tied to mining.

The Mill

A dramatic narrative dedicated to the harsh, joyless lives of young girls working at the Quarry Bank Mill textile factory in Cheshire, in northwest England, from 1833 to 1836. Formally, they are underage apprentices under the care and full provision of the factory owners, the wealthy Greg family.

Chicago Fire (Season 2, 1-6 series)

Fire Station No. 51 leads a vibrant life: constant responses to accidents and fires, confrontations with criminals, and saving people.

House of Cards: season 1

Congressman Frank Underwood is charming and terrifying, a genius villain striving to reach to the top of America's power structure.Along the way, he comes across the unions—of teachers and shipbuilders.Woe and despair befall them! An extraordinary storyline, a unique staging, and superb performances, led by Robin Wright (who portrays Claire Underwood)…

No God, No Master

The film is based on real events that took place in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. America's wealthy elite begin receiving "gifts" in the mail—bombs.

Prejudice & Pride

Głową w mur

Kicking One’s Head Against the Wall by Krzysztof Wyszkowski is a fascinating collection of the author’s most important texts, originally published in *Gazeta Polska* between 2007 and 2011. This carefully curated selection is supplemented with key articles from earlier years, including pieces published after 1989 in the prestigious Paris-based journal…

Zhanaozen. By Request.

Oil workers gathered in the central square of Zhanaozen (Western Kazakhstan) for a strike that lasted seven months. On December 16, 2011, during the Independence Day celebrations.

The Strike on Benteler

Memetakan Gerakan Buruh / Mapping the Labor Movement

To illuminate this, the editors present a variety of cutting-edge perspectives—from reviews of globalization to the intricacies of labor organizations themselves. Thus, in this anthology commemorating Fauzi Abdullah, readers will find one of the most important pieces of Indonesian-language labor studies literature in recent years—a detailed map that also…

Brothers on the Line

Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present

An international collection on workers’ control and self-management. It examines historical and contemporary struggles for workplace democracy, workers’ councils, factory occupations, cooperatives, and collective ownership—from the Paris Commune to the present.

Concrete: Stories from the Site Cabin

Jakob Mathiassen tells the story of life as a concrete worker on Danish construction sites. Combining personal stories from the site cabin with factual sections on the history of the trade, vocational training, trade unions, workplace safety, migrant labour and social dumping, the book offers an honest portrait of working-class life in the construction…

The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro

Michel, an experienced dock worker and activist of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), finds himself among the 20 people laid off due to staff cuts. He and his beloved wife, Marie-Claire, live happily, surrounded by the love of their family and colleagues.

80 Million

A historical drama by Waldemar Krzystek, based on real events during the 1980-1981 revolution in Poland. In December 1981, the Public Security forces were hunting down Solidarity trade unionists.

Black Thursday

The film tells the story of the workers' strikes that swept the Polish coastline in December 1970, which were brutally suppressed by the country's leadership. The focus is on the fate of the shipyard worker Brunon Drywa, who was killed during the unrest at the railway station on December 17, 1970, in Gdynia.

The Mole / Kret

Pavel Shitz and his father Zygmunt, an old hero of the labor resistance and a figure in "Solidarity," quietly trade French second-hand goods in the mining region of Silesia, living a peaceful life. However, their quiet existence comes to an end when a newspaper article accuses the father of espionage for the communist secret service.