Worker S Rights Movies

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then...

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first...

This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer...

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the...

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour,...

Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.

Apple Gatherers follows two workers in an apple cider factory, the Peeler and the Shoveller. The film explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction of...