Movies Reviews

The industry loves workers. Flooded with representations of workers as either (1) Vunerable, fallen angels, without agency or power, controlled by dangerous criminals or (2) Shallow, materialistic, manipulative and without ethics. Callous and ‘used up’. Thats if we are even alive to begin with - much of the time it doesn’t get past the dead hooker, killed violently by pimps, drug dealers or crazed punters. We want more: We want to see living, fighting, whole workers; representations abandoning flat one dimensional characters and stereotypes. We want complex portrayals of work - ones that take into account diversity of experience, gender,ualities, class and racism. We want and stories from actual workers and ethically produced documentaries. And as much as they want us as subject, it’s clear corporate media and the industry isn’t going to deliver on this any time soon. Thats why we decided to take the matter into our own hands, and proudly present: The First Ever London Worker Festival