A series of videos examining the changing nature of work in contemporary Australian society and primarily aimed at audiences from non-English speaking backgrounds. In episode 1, “Improving your skills”, Rosa undertakes English classes to learn to read and write, and in the long term, to be able to take further courses to improve her skills. In “Finding a career” Trahn is encouraged by a work friend to learn English and find work similar to the job he left in Vietnam. In “Looking to the future” workers on a building site discuss the long-term importance of superannuation.
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
302602
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Alien labor
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Job hunting
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Work
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Vietnamese - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Alien labor
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Old age pensions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Vietnamese - Australia
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Educational & Instructional
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Old age pensions
Television
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)