Through rare archival footage and participant interviews, this groundbreaking film recovers the long-suppressed history of the 1934 General Textile Strike, when hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers walked off the job.

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, now in their eighties and nineties, reminisce about their union’s heyday—the textile strikes, free-speech battles, life in the lumber camps—in this meticulously researched history of the Wobblies.

Shooting clandestinely, with smuggled equipment and under threat of arrest, director Micha Peled gains extraordinary access into life at a blue-jeans factory in China to give us an unprecedented look at the current state of Chinese labor.

From Mexico to the Philippines to Tennessee, this remarkably prescient film, completed in 1986, examines the consequences both at home and abroad of the then relatively new American business practice of outsourcing manufacture and assembly jobs.

Each year thousands of Jamaicans spend six months cutting sugar cane by hand in Florida. They arrive with hopes of decent wages and a better life, only to find themselves exploited in ways that recall the shameful days of slavery.

Travis Wilkerson reconstructs the 1917 lynching of labor organizer Frank Little, drawing a parallel between the environmental degradation wrought by the Anaconda Mining Company in Butte, Montana, and the shattered dreams of social revolution.

Drilled in American popular culture and pronunciation, young Indian workers at a call center in Mumbai inhabit a surreal virtual world where their American identities, often eagerly adopted if ill fitting, are at odds with the reality of their lives.

Members of the United Mine Workers take over the Pittston Coal Company and wait for the cops to attack in this verité recounting of one of the most important labor struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.