• Director: Ken Loach
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
  • Language: English, Spanish

Bread and Roses (Bread & Roses)

Description

Maya's dream of a better life in the United States seems to have come true when she and her sister, Rosa, get jobs a janitors, but the women must deal with a capricious boss and low wages, always under the threat of deportation if their undocumented status becomes an issue. The stakes rise when a labor organizer, Simon, arrives to help the workers organize; but while Maya sees him as a savior, Rosa's husband is ill and she is desperate to keep her job, even with its minimal benefits.

Themes

Labor Unions, Strikes, Immigration, Poverty, Race relations, Social justice, Social justice movements, Mexican Americans, Class conflicts, Women's history, Family relations