Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach (2019, U.K., 101 min.)

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You is an intimate and affecting portrait of the millions of workers toiling away at the edge of a changing economy that continually treats humans as mere cogs in an increasingly automated and faster moving system that values efficiency above all else. Along the way, people’s lives, health, families, and communities are increasingly treated as externalities to be minimized on a company’s balance sheet. Without being didactic, Loach shows the cost of this system and how unsustainable it already is.

Prior to the film, we were pleased to host Paolo Marinaro, one of the original co-organizers of the Landscapes of Labor series and now a lecturer at the UCLA Labor Studies Program and the Country Program Director For the Solidarity Center AFL-CIO in Mexico, where he works with Mexican and US unions to empower workers and promote transnational labor solidarity. Paolo’s research focuses on innovative ways of organizing labor and he put the film’s focus on the gig economy into context for viewers.

(Shown in partnership with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights)