America Works When America Works

• 1981 ----- color ----- 80 min ----- 16mm
• Examines the deficiencies of a manpower system that has failed to keep up with industrial change. Skills which are being phased out of the economy leave a residue of unemployed while new enterprises are short of skilled workers. Correspondent Lloyd Dobyns points out that unlike other Western nations, America has no manpower policy--no national retraining programs. Our greatest resource--labor--is virtually ignored.
• Topics: (Economics, Industry, Management)