Despite progress made towards global gender equality, men still continue to hold the highest-paid positions in industries worldwide, while many women still typically handle grunt work across companies and supply chains. These jobs are labelled unskilled, “low-value”, or entry-level and often ha...
The majority of these people's work experience involves semi-skilled or unskilled labour, which, on the resume of an older homeless individual, acts as an additional barrier to finding meaningful employment (Cohen, 1999). Similarly, rates of homelessness are higher in those who spent a portion...
If you're not bringing any exceptional experience to the table for unskilled labor jobs, you're competing with locals willing to work for far less than you. Here's a good rule of thumb: if people from that country are coming to your country to do this job for more money, trying to g...
Such is the dark fantastical world of the poet Wu Niaoniao. InIron Moon, we watch Wu in a seemingly endless and fruitless search for work at a job fair in the industrial zone in Shenzhen. The jobs on offer: forklift driver, coalminer, construction worker (skilled and unskilled), truck dr...