workplace downsizing

His socially conscious films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' unflinchingly examine the human cost of economic systems that discard workers and marginalize the vulnerable.

Works such as 'Nobody Knows' and 'Shoplifters' explore how economic precarity and job insecurity fragment families and force ordinary people into survival mode.

Films like 'Another Year' and 'Naked' depict the psychological toll of unemployment and economic anxiety on working-class characters with devastating emotional realism.