Working Conditions Movies

Purl, an earnest ball of yarn, gets a job at a fast-paced, male-centered startup company. Things start to unravel as Purl tries to fit in with this...

Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the...

A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the...

Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and...

When it comes to odd jobs, Paul F. Tompkins has experienced them all, stand-up comedian included. In this extended and uncensored stand-up special,...

A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small...

Emergency medicine intern Margaux can no longer stand it. During another very hectic and patient-filled shift, she forgets a homeless woman on a...

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they once made up the vast majority of the country,...

1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In...

Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...

Alice gets by working as a substitute at preschools. One morning she's called to a new preschool where she, as usual, is put to work without a proper...

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to...

After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr. Prokouk spends more time...

Áurea and Vander, maids all his life, reflect on the new law regulating the profession.

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian suburbs. Samia, Corinne, Thierry, Zuleika must...