Keyword: worker's rights

Matewan

8.1

1987

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A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

A Whole Life Ahead

6.9

2008

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A brilliant recent graduate struggles to find work. After falling into a babysitting job, she is introduced by the childs mother to the world of the international call center, its employees, and the fast pace that drives them.

Farewell Ferris Wheel

7.1

2016

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Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.

Triangle: Remembering the Fire

7.8

2011

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On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a 10-story building, 146 workers--mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls--were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.