Keyword: labor rights

Ascension

6.6

2021

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The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the Chinese Dream. This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.

Factory Complex

7

2015

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The drastic economic development in South Korea once surprised the rest of the world. However, behind of it was an oppression the marginalized female laborers had to endure. The film invites us to the lives of the working class women engaged in the textile industry of the 1960s, all the way through the stories of flight attendants, cashiers, and non-regular workers of today. As we encounter the vista of female factory workers in Cambodia that poignantly resembles the labor history of Korea, the form of labor changes its appearance but the essence of the bread-and-butter question remains still.

The Gig Is Up

7.5

2021

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App developers lured a massive labor force by promising flexible hours with no offices or bosses-but with gig workers from Uber, Amazon, Lyft and more in front of the camera, the human cost of disruption runs deep.

American Factory

7.4

2019

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In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Sorry We Missed You

7.7

2019

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Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.

Cart

6.7

2014

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The employees of a big-box discount retailer band together when the contract workers are summarily laid off.

The Navigators

7

2001

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Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.

It's a Free World...

7

2007

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After being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.