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1) Tootsie
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Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
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"Against the backdrop of a robust economy, hundreds of thousands of people in this country remain out of work for long periods of time, causing economic and psychological hardships for entire families. Hardest Times examines in depth what happens to men, and to their families, when they remain out of work for longer than six months, a period the government designates as long term unemployment. Cottle examines long term unemployment as a traumatic...
4) Living through job loss: coping with the emotional effects of job loss and rebuilding your future
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"Job loss is an all too common occurrence in today's society, yet sound, practical advice on how to deal with the devastation - emotional as well as financial - is hard to come by. Now, Ann Kaiser Stearns, author of the bestselling Living Through Personal Crisis (which Ann Landers called "the best all-purpose self-help book I have seen in years"), uses her expertise to provide compassionate support and guidance for anyone struggling with the difficulties...
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Do too many people go to college? The belief that college is essential to reaching one's full potential is under fire. Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt, unemployment for those with bachelor's degrees is at an all-time high, and entrepreneurs like the founders of Microsoft and Facebook prove that extraordinary success is possible without graduating college. But recent studies show that college is economically beneficial even to those...
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"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions have changed from ancient times to the present. He deals with what economists and philosophers have written about the problem over the centuries, with what public officials, heads...
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For most people, the hardest part of writing a resume is getting started. In this book, professional resume writers and career counselors Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark give you the help you need to start - -and pull together a stunning resume with ease! -- From publisher's description.
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In the current job market, opportunities for young workers are scarce. This ABC News report examines why workers between the ages of 16 and 24 have such a hard time finding jobs. Susan Solovic offers advice to these job seekers, such as considering skilled labor or getting your foot in the door with a job beneath your skill set.
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Buyouts, plant closings, mergers. They all come down to someone losing a job. This kind of loss affects everyone differently. This important program helps viewers see how losing a job often parallels the trauma experienced after a death. In both cases, individuals must go through a grieving process that includes working through various stages. We also learn strategies for finding the positive opportunities in this dramatic change that touches so many...
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"Twenty-five-year-old Jason Sayer has lost his nerve. An unemployed Vanderbilt graduate who's temporarily taken up residence with his mother and her live-in boyfriend, Jason is adrift in the summery haze of suburban Knoxville. The narrative spans four months in Jason's life shortly after his return from a disillusioning journey to Australia in search of himself."--Page 4 of cover
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"Inspired by Studs Terkel's Working and by James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, DW Gibson set off on a journey across the United States to interview Americans who have lost their jobs. Here is the mortgage broker who arrived at work to find the door to his office building padlocked, the human resources executive who laid off a couple hundred people before being laid off herself, the husband who was laid off two weeks after his...
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"Women in Britain account for fifty per cent of all employed workers yet the role which they play in economic activity is distinct and different from that of men. Women are more likely than men to work part-time, to experience career breaks, and to be excluded from official statistics when unemployed. Above all, women bear more responsibility for domestic tasks than men."--BOOK JACKET. "Economic analysis has overlooked the differences between men...
19) Two by two
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At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
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