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Wise Years Wasted - The Unemployed Older Worker
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keywords: unemployment, older worker, age discrimination, skill retraining
Synopsis: Examines the plight of the over-50 unemployed older worker who has years before Social Security and whose current skills are out of date due to new technologies and automation and age discrimination when seeking a new job...(read more)
- Date: 1965
- Duration: 00:25:07
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Wise Years Wasted - The Unemployed Older Worker
Hospital and nursing training in Baltimore, Md., counseling programs in Cleveland, Ohio; psychological testing in Milwaukee, Wis.; testing the highly skilled in Boston, Mass., rural workers in Ashville, N.C., and progress of old age programs in South Bend, Indiana.
Cart in grocery store with sign “day old bread ½ price”, scenes illustrating technological changes and automation, various scenes of college classroom, campus,and students, older or elderly unemployed workers in line at state employment office. Ashville NC; aerial view of the city, view of a prosperous residential area, and a view of area of depression populated by poor hill folk. Newspaper headline of South Bend Tribune “Auto Output To End Here”. Shows Studebaker automobile plant. Shift change at automobile industrial plant. Workers leaving plant.
