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Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the far northern reaches of the planet a rare breed of extreme fishermen still ply the Bering Sea. Adventure is their call, crab is their prey, and a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward. Five skippers and their crews will endure boat-killing storms and mind-numbing working conditions, risking it all on the hunt for crab. In the end, they will all come to the realization that the most violent storms come from within. This year, there's...
3) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kantola Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Alec Levenson, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California, gives a talk on the characteristics of the Millennials and how to manage them.
"New generations have always caused disruption for coworkers and created challenges for managers from previous generations. The Millennials now entering the job market are no different. They share the tendency of previous generations of younger workers to change...
8) India
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the lives of 5 child laborers in India: Bala (11) and Rama (9), stone cutters; an 8 year old girl who makes insence sticks; a 7 year old girl who works 10 hours a day in the poppy fields and a 10 year old boy who was pulled out of school to tend cattle. Also tells of a political science professor's program that rescues children from their jobs and places them in a special school program.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
10) Get a job
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Recent college graduates Will and Jillian quickly encounter the struggles millennials face in today's highly competitive job market. When Will's job falls through and Jillian gets laid off, the young couple and their friends must endure public humiliation, hazing, and surprise drug tests to ultimately launch their fledgling careers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stanford Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Today's young workers are a new breed, thanks to two unique forces in their upbringing. Raised during the self-esteem movement, they are often self-confident and used to attention. And the first generation to grow up with technology, they work fast and expect fast results. In the workforce, they can seem demanding, even disrespectful of authority, with an inflated sense of entitlement"--Container.
12) Vanity fair
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
13) Il posto
Series
Criterion collection volume 194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
"When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling...
14) Post grad
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins out of control when she's forced to move back home with her eccentric family. By the time she lands her dream job, Ryden realizes it's meaningless without the man of her dreams, and the people she loves.
16) Women in trouble
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's just another complex day for a pregnant porn star, a bartender, a flight attendant who has a crush on a famous passenger, a masseuse, a scorned psychiatrist, a teenage goth, and a couple of call girls who all have one thing in common: trouble. On one crazy day feminine compassion will alter all of their lives.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Earl Hickey is a recovering ne'er-do-well with a lifetime's worth of dirty deeds to make up for. In order to turn his life around, Earl needs a G.E.D., a job, an apartment, and a whole lot of good karma. And, if her can keep his ex-wife out of prison, so much the better.
19) Major Payne
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When peace breaks out in America, killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Special Forces, is given his marching orders--to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life, Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC.
20) Vanity fair
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
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