Movies: Worker s rights

  • 2016
    Migrant Dreams

    Migrant Dreams (2016)

    Migrant Dreams

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    When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises...

    Migrant Dreams
  • 2019
    Conversations with Turiansky

    Conversations with Turiansky (2019)

    Conversations with Turiansky

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    Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays the son of immigrants, the engineer passionate about the mystery of electricity, the man in love, t...

    Conversations with Turiansky
  • 2019
    Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit

    Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit (2019)

    Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit

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    Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit
  • 1969
    The Fields of Immokalee

    The Fields of Immokalee (1969)

    The Fields of Immokalee

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    For decades, migrant workers have worked the fields of Immokalee, harvesting tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, oranges and other produce that is then shipped across the United States of America. Many of the workers are undocumented, and attempting to ke...

    The Fields of Immokalee
  • 2017
    The Harvest

    The Harvest (2017)

    The Harvest

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    Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy, he’s been living with the rest of the Sikh community in Latina province. Hardeep is also Indian, but her stress ...

    The Harvest
  • 2013
    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World (2013)

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

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    A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change....

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
  • 2004
    Poor-Land

    Poor-Land (2004)

    Poor-Land

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    A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland....

    Poor-Land
  • 1988
    Love, Women & Flowers

    Love, Women & Flowers (1988)

    Love, Women & Flowers

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

    Love, Women & Flowers
  • 2009
    A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress

    A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress (2009)

    A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress

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    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, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demo...

    A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress
  • 1978
    I've Got to Live...

    I've Got to Live... (1978)

    I've Got to Live...

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    The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel south. His wife Karin and the children will stay in the village until further notice. Nils starts working...

    I've Got to Live...
  • 2001
    Struggle

    Struggle (2001)

    Struggle

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

    Struggle
  • 1976
    La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

    La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden (1976)

    La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

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    During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilea...

    La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden