A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting ...
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...
Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his lov...
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Mari...
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be volun...
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on ...
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial...
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. Whe...
Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate fina...
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central ...
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory....
Jeong-sun as her name lives an uncluttered life with modest behavior even though working at a food f...
A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the ...
An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on a...