At Hullabaloo, Dennis Hartley offers a list of ten films to watch on Labor Day (h/t ql). I’m a bit embarrassed to say I’ve only seen one of these:

• Blue Collar
• El Norte
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Harlan County, USA
• Made in Dagenhan
• Matewan
• Modern Times
• Norma Rae
• On the Waterfront
• Roger and Me

Of all these, I’ve only seen On the Waterfront. The whole list seems worth a look, though.

I might add season 2 of The Wire to the list, which (spoiler alert) portrays the difficulties of labor today. One of the season’s plots involves the head of a stevedores’ union getting involved in drug trafficking—not as a way of making money in and of itself, but to pay for lobbyists to improve the job prospects for workers on Baltimore ‘s docks.