58m; U.S.
Synopsis: Women in sweatshops and factories in Central and South America.
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Work (1970)
15m; U.S.
Director: Fred Wardenburg
Synopsis: Film showing assembly line labor; provokes political analysis of alienated labor.
Work in Progress (2009)
12m; Canada
Synopsis: The life of an injured worker is seen through her challenges, both personal and the bureaucratic.
Workers Dreams (2007)
50m; Vietnam
Director: Tran Phuong Thao
Synopsis: Thousands of young women now work in foreign owned factories in Vietnam for approximately $2 a day. This film shows the lives of these young rural women who end up in a Japanese Canon factory in the Hanoi area. Hoping to make a new life with many consumer goods around them they are ground up in the capitalist system and their dreams and illusions about the new Vietnam are crushed.
Workers In Peril, Union In Action (2009)
44m; Canada
Director: Michael Connolly
Synopsis: Covers the recent recession’s effect on workers, auto workers specifically. Also touches on pension and severance issues. Great footage and editing. Narrated by Jian Gomes.
Workers Newreel (Volume 1, Number 10) [1931]
8m; U.S.
Director: Workers Film and Photo League of the WIR
Synopsis: Unemployment demo in Union Square in 1931
Workers’ Voices (2009)
2.5m; U.K.
Director: Gary Williams
Synopsis: Three school meals workers talk about their jobs and working for Chartwell’s. Filmed as part of the UNISON Three Companies project organizing blitz on 4th November 2009
Workers’ Republic (2009)
50m; U.S.
Director: Andrew Freund
Synopsis: Three weeks before Christmas 2008, in the depths of the economic crisis, Chicago company Republic Windows and Doors told their workforce that the factory was closing shop. Republic executives complained about dwindling sales due to the crash of the housing market. Three days later, when the Republic employees came in to pick up their final paychecks, they were informed that they would not be paid for their final week or receive their accrued vacation pay. Their insurance benefits were cut immediately, and they were denied the 60-day severance guaranteed under the federal WARN Act.
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