His films like 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes' powerfully depict working-class struggle, joblessness, and the dehumanizing effects of economic systems on ordinary people.

Films such as 'Another Year' and 'Career Girls' explore the emotional toll of economic instability and social anxiety through intimate character studies of working people.

'Nomadland' examines economic displacement and precarity in modern America through the lives of transient workers navigating financial hardship and social marginalization.