An unemployed man struggles to help an equally penniless, yet shockingly beautiful, young woman in her search for food and shelter.

A manager at a railroad electrifying company reluctantly takes on a man who is being abused by his wife, allowing him to try his best at the job and earn some money. Unfortunately, the man’s hard work is soon eclipsed by his wife’s brutality.

To earn enough money for college, a high school graduate takes a grueling factory job. He expects his only takeaway from the work to be a paycheck, but a mysterious coworker teaches him about the world and his place in it.

An employee writes a heartfelt letter to his former boss to argue that he was wrongfully fired. As he lays out his life story, his hidden cowardice and stubborn ambitions paint a different story.

A Native American ex-convict finally lands a job at a doughnut shop, but a betrayal by a co-worker leads him to consider whether or not the job is worth the discrimination.

In an unlikely encounter, a homeless teenage boy recounts harsh events of his life to a writer. He nonchalantly tells of an employer whose assignments caused him to have permanent physical and mental damage.

Following a breakup, a woman trapped in a nine-to-five office job becomes depressed and begins to consider suicide.

A bank teller will do anything to get promoted, but management changes and the Great Depression thwart him at every turn.

The laborers at a gas plant use all means to evade company rules and withdraw their money as they please.

After three years of being attacked with racism and hatred, a Black man decides to put his coworker in his place.