Live Nude Girls, Unite! (2000), Philadelphia (1993), Nae Pasaran (2018), The Price of Sugar (2007), Daens (1992), Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010), Comrades (1986), Manufactured Landscapes (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Worker's Rights movies.
Storyline: Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree with Dutch's ideas and kick him out. Without a job or union card to get another he leaves Hattie to look for work. Hattiee steals money to help him when she learns he is really down on his luck and she goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: fisherman, factory worker, night watchman, union boss, sister, wife, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: farmer, owner, girl, friend, farmhand, tense, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants turn up in an abandoned tunnel that has caved in, and two U.S. teen bikers are missing. As Rhodes pokes around and speculates on connections among these events, he's beaten up, warned off by a drug dealer's attorney, and given varying degrees of help by the U.S. State Department rep, the U.S. Trade rep, and an honest local cop. It's always about money, but whose is at stake and how cheap is Rhodes's life?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: activist, detective, government official, laborer, lawyer, friend, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Forced to live far away, two Chinese factory workers make an arduous journey once a year to visit their children, who barely know them.
Plot Keywords: factory worker, mother, father, daughter, son, seamstress, fascinating ...
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