Movies about work and labour rights

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

In the space of 24 hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of troubles.

Employees Violet, Judy, and Dora Lee of sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot Franklin Hart Junior find a way to turn the tables on him. Dolly Parton's film debut was later a short-lived TV sitcom and a Broadway musical.

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Serena Bruno returns to Italy to be an architect and help people but she will struggle to convince her fellow co-workers that they have to be more open minded.

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

A woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job, her firm tries all the humiliation techniques known as "mobbing". The film is based upon real cases reported by Italian unions.

The owners of an Italian textile factory sell majority of property to a multinational company.

A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.