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Revolutionary Communists of Peterborough

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16 films in package
A tarea
Poachers and climate change are wiping out the fine clam and the slimy clam in the Galician estuaries in Spain. A group of shellfish gatherers fight to remedy this imbalance, whose hard work and traditions are being extinguished with each generation.
Cables
Manuela is socially isolated and manages her internal rage by drawing comics. One day she makes a new friend...
COVID Sourdough
A short documentary about the union organizers at Tartine Bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area who successfully won a unionization vote.
Dissonance
Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women's association dedicated to the detection of anti-personnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). This documentary chronicles the group’s work and the challenges they face within a complex political backdrop.
Ghost Workers
Six European microworkers share their experiences and offer an affecting critique on changing labour conditions.
Homegrown
Inspired by true events, Homegrown follows Bajan worker Nicole, a young, hardworking fruit picker working on a UK fruit farm on the hottest day of the year.
Imade
A young migrant is looking forward to returning to Morocco to visit his family, whom he has not seen for years. To do so, he will have to struggle against the isolation and loneliness in which he lives because of his deafness.
Limerent Pittsburgh
A videopoem revisiting the rust belt city is a site of rekindling of memories and mythologies of labour and family.
Motown South: Organized Labor in the Battery Belt
Electric vehicle producers are setting up shop in states such as Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee - but why?
NOLA
A Black woman working as a sous-chef navigates toxic restaurant culture and her wavering mental health, until a chance encounter changes her.
Shadow Work
This short documentary looks at “shadow work”: tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description, but are necessary for the organization to function, and may be paid and unseen. Unpaid labour, shadow work, glue work, organizational citizenship. Whatever you name it, organizations benefit from it.
They Called It The Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images
“They Called It The Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images” amplifies the voices of the women of Fleck Manufacturing in 1978 as they tell their story of struggle, solidarity, and sisterhood.
Union and University
Disgruntled graduate students disrupt two hundred years of peaceful exploitation by going on strike. The university administration hires private investigators, security, and a full surveillance package to keep the campus safe. Is this 2025 or 1925?
Victory Train
On the purple trains that run through the rapeseed fields of Skåne, anger is growing. The train company is planning yet another cutback. But this time the train staff are ready to back each other!
Working for Freedom
A short documentary that follows an Ottawa-based woman through her experiences of prison labour at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
Your Own Boss
A food delivery worker struggles to juggle his responsibilities as a young father with the impossible demands of an algorithm that pushes him to the limit.
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This short documentary looks at “shadow work”: tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description, but are necessary for the organization to function, and may be paid and unseen.


Unpaid labour, shadow work, glue work, organizational citizenship. Whatever you name it, organizations benefit from it.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    0:02:53
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Canada
  • Genre
    Documentary, Short
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Gillian McKercher
  • Screenwriter
    Gillian McKercher
  • Producer
    Gillian McKercher, Guillaume Carlier
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