书籍与电影

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.

Wanted: Dangerous Criminal

Wanted: Dangerous Criminal (Russia, 1992) – A feature film about a tank regiment commander who did not go against his people and refused to carry out the command to suppress a workers' revolt at a factory. However, he went against the Soviet system, for which he lost everything—his rank, position, awards, and freedom.

Stalin Over Wisconsin: The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900–1950

For union organizers, community activists, and labor scholars the republication of Stephen Meyer’s Stalin Over Wisconsin: The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900–1950 is especially timely. Meyer tells the story of fiercely militant, and Communist-influenced, UAW Local 248, which represented the huge Allis-Chalmers plant outside Milwaukee,…

Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

Hoffa

Jack Nicholson stars as James R. Hoffa, the president of the truck drivers' union.

Newsies

This retro musical is based on real events. In the late 19th century, two major newspaper publishers in New York, the Journal and the World, conspired to raise the wholesale price of their publications.

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Bill Presser decides to leave the truck drivers' union council, but before that, he chooses to nominate his son Jackie as the new union leader in place of the suddenly missing Jimmy Hoffa. Jackie faces resistance from the leadership, but by establishing contacts with the FBI and the mafia, he begins to consolidate power using any means necessary, even…

Women's strike 1991 Switzerland | Women's strike day of June 14, 1991 / Der Aufstand gilt dem Patriarchat. Frauenstreik 14.Juni 1991

A short film about a campaign organized in 1991 by the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions to combat discrimination against women in the workplace, income, social security, and education. The campaign's slogan is particularly striking: "If women want it, everything will stop" (or, in another translation, "Everything will fall into place").

Riff-Raff

The film is dedicated to Britain construction workers who have come to London in search of a better life: migrants, homeless individuals, and guys recently released from prison. They all work, have fun, and try to survive in any way they can.

$4 a Day? No Way!: Joining Hands Across the Border

The story of Mexican Ford workers in Cuautitlán, whose fight for union democracy in 1990 was met with violence.

ABC OF STRIKE / ABC DA GREVE

A detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist Lula, demanded better work conditions and better payments, fighting not only against their exploitative bosses but also the political establishment of the time.

My Macondo

Inspired by the people and landscape of Colombia's Banana Zone, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez created the Buendia family and the village of Macondo, placing them at the centre of his acclaimed novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among the events described in Marquez' novel is the 1928 Banana Strike and the subsequent murder of 3 000…