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Workers union talk about their struggle, their demands and their lives.
Workers union talk about their struggle, their demands and their lives.
Workers union talk about their struggle, their demands and their lives.
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
“บ็อกซ์คาร์” เบอร์ธา ทอมป์สัน หญิงสาวชั่วคราวในอาร์คันซอในช่วงภาวะเศรษฐกิจตกต่ำอันเต็มไปด้วยความรุนแรงในช่วงต้นทศวรรษปี ค.ศ. 1930 ได้พบกับ “บิ๊ก” บิล เชลลี สมาชิกสหภาพแรงงานผู้ก่อความไม่สงบ และทั้งสองร่วมมือกันต่อสู้กับสถาบันการรถไฟที่ทุจริต
เฮเลน มีร์เรนรับบทแม่ผู้ฉลาดหลักแหลมที่กำลังป่วย ซึ่งวางแผนอำลาครั้งสุดท้ายตามเงื่อนไขของเธอเอง ในภาพยนตร์สะเทือนอารมณ์ ฝีมือการกำกับเรื่องแรกของเคท วินสเล็ต
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonials from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.
ฮิลารี่ สแวงค์และแอนเจลิกา ฮัสตันนำแสดงในภาพยนตร์ของเอชบีโอเกี่ยวกับการเคลื่อนไหวเพื่อสิทธิการเลือกตั้งสตรีในอเมริกายุค 1920
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.