Men at Work

Duration: 33

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the effects of assembly line reorganization and increased production schedules on typical workers in one department of a washing machine factory. Includes home and family problems, personal characteristics, group spirit, pride in work, and management attitudes as factors affecting the adjustment of workers to new plant conditions. Poses the problem as one for management and union to work out together., Shows several kinds of vocational training of the unemployed in Italy, as supported by ECA counterpart funds. Explains that some schools train in machine work, welding, or printing; some in construction work; and others in reforestation and conservation. At the same time that men are being trained, they are also doing work nationally important for Italy.

Complete Record: Shows the effects of assembly line reorganization and increased production schedules on typical workers in one department of a washing machine factory. Includes home and family problems, personal characteristics, group spirit, pride in work, and management attitudes as factors affecting the adjustment of workers to new plant conditions. Poses the problem as one for management and union to work out together., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.