Film about people who have no job and try to keep their head above water with obscure business ideas.

October 1, 2010, Jobcenter Neukölln

The 30-minute documentary film looks at the forgotten history of workhouses in Berlin, Germany, especially the workhouse in the district of Rummelsburg.

Jobcenter Berlin-Mitte, September 17, 2009 - Action "Nobody has to go to the jobcenter alone": In Berlin currently about 60 people organize na "accompanying pool" through a mailing-list and regular breakfast meetings. Jobcenter claimants and companions report.

"Nobody has to go to the Jobcenter alone!"<br>Action at Jobcenters and against the Hartz IV-rules on July 6, 2009

28 April 2009, Job-Centre in Berlin Neukoelln. Activists offer to accompany the people who recieve social benefits to the appointments with their consultants. Everybody has the right to take another person. Simply due to the presence of a third party, pressure or sanctions on the welfare recipients are significantly reduced.

Nobody has to go to the Jobcenter alone - Under this slogan people from various political and social initiatives came together on March 5, 2009.

July 15, 2006 - Bertelsmann-Congress Hamburg - Herbert Schui explains his view on the demand for an unconditional basic income ("citizen's income"). He is sceptical when asked whether this concept can be implemented.

Interview with Christoph Speer - Poverty is becoming a natural state, it is not scandalous any more. "Nobody feels ashamed any more that one of the richest states of the world cannot properly take care of its citizens any more". That produces insecurity, even among people who do not fall within the scope of ALG II (social security for unemployed people) and Hartz IV (2004 welfare reform).

People with money they can invest, invest it where they get maximum profit. Therefore, all companies are in a race for the highest profits. In the course of this race they rationalize: wages are lowered, the work gets intensified, people are sacked etc. Those who appropriate the profits get more and more money that way, while the others - including the public budgets - have less and less at hand.

Berlin, January 3, 2005 - Several hundred demonstrators walk in front of the state employment agency (Arbeitsamt) in the district of Wedding. They want to take their protest against labour market reforms to the place were those reforms take shape.