As a member of the defense industry, a man recalls his memories throughout his work life. He encounters a former management and realizes how he and his employees are part of the greater picture in the world.

An aging factory worker faces a jarring surprise at work months before his retirement. As capitalism chugs along, employees get caught in its cogs.

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

When a Croatian immigrant arrives for his first day at a New York City pork processing plant, the dehumanization of his work and the petty squabbles of his colleagues become overwhelming. Even so, nothing could have prepared him for the ferocity with which their dissatisfaction soon erupts into violence.

In an alternate Great Depressions NYC, a Jewish foreman investigates the true outputs of his factory as his eccentric German employer seeks to use an emerging idea called "industrivism," or the improvement of the human body through technology, created by a bored pulp writer, to recruit workers to fulfill his machinations. Without realizing, a pulp writer in an alternative 1920s New York City invents the idea of "industrivism" that earns her an audience with an eccentric German businessman. Meanwhile, a Jewish foreman investigate the true purpose of the factory and unearths his employer's dark past and future machinations.

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.

When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

A man working at a communications community wants a new job. His coworker promises him one, so long as the man helps to hide human body parts.

In a job interview, a former factory worker explains how the Red Scare caused conflict at his previous workplace. When one of his coworkers is accused of sabotaging the new machines, the factory worker must defend that he is not a communist.

Al Roosten, a local business owner always second-best to his competitor, Larry Donfrey, contemplates returning to an anti-drug charity event to ensure that Donfrey is able to help his disabled daughter.