A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.

A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...

Set around Perth from 1943-63, two families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in this acclaimed Australian miniseries. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof.

Judith is a woman living in a small town. She works in a Christmas ornament company. She has dreams of working in big business. She is an accountant at the company. But, there's trouble in store for the factory. There is an incoming MegaMart being built. Now, she has to save the company from closing down and unite the town before December 25. All the while, she is pursuing a romance with the mysterious new factory worker who has come to her small...

Three outcast friends in '70s England work together at an insurance company while dreaming of escape. Freddie is a salesman suddenly thrown onto the fast track when he gains the attention of his boss. Torn between a life of partying with friends and the promise of a brighter future, life gets more complicated when Freddie becomes attracted to the boss's daughter.-- Container.

Joel is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant who constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the minute. First, his soon-to-be floor manager acquires a serious injury in a machine malfunctioning accident. This subsequently endangers the wellbeing of his company. Second, his personal life doesn't fair much better when he takes his bartending friend Dean's advice while in a drug-induced brainstorming session on how...

"Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory"--

Conservative, blue-collar Archie Bunker deals with a changing world as his liberal daughter and son-in-law move into his Queens home

"Set in failing small town in central Ohio, [this novel] asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. [It focuses] on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community; the Marwats, an immigrant family that owns the town's largest employer; and the Shaws, especially young Anthony, an outsider whose very presence gently shakes the town's understanding...

Conservative, blue-collar Archie Bunker deals with a changing world as his liberal daughter and son-in-law move into his Queens home