World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to join the military or to seek work in the cities. The solution would be a unique contract-worker agreement between the United States and Mexico -- The Bracero Program.
7.2 2008 HD
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
0 1954 HD
A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...
8 1975 HD
The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...
0 2022 HD
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...
0 2000 HD
This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...
0 2017 HD
Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...
0 2003 HD
A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...
0 2018 HD
In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?
7.5 1977 HD
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....
0 1999 HD
What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored,...
9 2014 HD
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...
0 2010 HD
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....
8 2011 HD
Inside the life of former baseball star Curt Flood whose fight against MLB's 'Reserve Clause' led to reform, but destroyed his career.
7.1 1990 HD
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local...
0 1981 HD
Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...
8 2011 HD
The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...
6.7 2023 HD
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...
0 2017 HD
Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to...
0 1977 HD
How Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how...
0 1952 HD
An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.
