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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.

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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.

In 1978, in Huron Park, Ontario, the women of Fleck Manufacturing walked off of the job and into the history books. Fighting for better wages, safer working conditions, and union security, the strikers embarked on what would become a pivotal strike for both feminism and the labour movement. For five months the strikers faced backlash and police violence, but they also forged new alliances and built community. “They Called It The Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images” amplifies the voices of these women as they tell their story of struggle, solidarity, and sisterhood.

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.

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?

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?

Working for Freedom is a short documentary that follows an Ottawa-based woman through her experiences of prison labour at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Author of Solidarity behind bars, Jordan House, provides us with an overview of the frameworks that allow these exploitative practices to continue today.

Working for Freedom

A short documentary that follows an Ottawa-based woman through her experiences of prison labour at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.

A Black woman working as a sous-chef navigates toxic restaurant culture and her wavering mental health, until a chance encounter changes her.

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A Black woman working as a sous-chef navigates toxic restaurant culture and her wavering mental health, until a chance encounter changes her.

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