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Back to school: Slim pickings in the job market are sending many young people back to the classroom
Back to school: Slim pickings in the job market are sending many young people back to the classroom

Back to school: Slim pickings in the job market are sending many young people back to the classroom

Date2/8/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Back to school: Slim pickings in the job market are sending many young people back to the classroom.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0018558F
Better prospects: There's more work to be had these days than back in the early 1980s when this young man, unemployed and unskilled, scanned the classified advertisements
Better prospects: There's more work to be had these days than back in the early 1980s when this young man, unemployed and unskilled, scanned the classified advertisements
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600 people turn out for about 80 jobs, More than 600 job-seekers crammed the site of a new shopping plaza at Gerrard and Pape today as Horizon stores, (...)
Spremo, Boris
6/17/1975
Young job seekers line up for application forms at the Manpower Centre at the CNE after learning that jobs with the Ex as ticket sellers and booth att(...)
Young job seekers line up for application forms at the Manpower Centre at the CNE after learning that jobs with the Ex as ticket sellers and booth att(...)
Bezant, Graham
8/30/1971
Job hunting: 'The new ones are the most depressing because they're people who worked steadily for 10 or 12 years and suddenly they've been laid off,' says welfare worker Rochelle Winnick
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Lennon, Frank
5/1/1970
re Hoaxed by a man jobs on a ranch near unemployed young men sat around Bay St
re Hoaxed by a man jobs on a ranch near unemployed young men sat around Bay St
Beaty, Keith
10/19/1977
Metro Youth Jobs Corps North and the Jane-Finch Concerned Citizens Organization pay about 130 disadvantaged young residents of the Jane-Finch communit(...)
Metro Youth Jobs Corps North and the Jane-Finch Concerned Citizens Organization pay about 130 disadvantaged young residents of the Jane-Finch communit(...)
Rankin, Jim
7/9/1993
Job-hunters: Men and women lined up by the thousand at Canada's Wonderland this morning to get application forms for 3,000 jobs at a new American Motors plant in Brampton
Job-hunters: Men and women lined up by the thousand at Canada's Wonderland this morning to get application forms for 3,000 jobs at a new American Motors plant in Brampton
Bull, Ron
9/29/1986
Jobs, jobs everywhere
Jobs, jobs everywhere
Bock, Tony
6/22/1987
Sorry - no jobs here: With high technology destroying jobs instead of creting them, workers face problems
Sorry - no jobs here: With high technology destroying jobs instead of creting them, workers face problems
Darrell, Dick
9/13/1974
Job search: Ainsley Hylton, 16, of Toronto fills out an application for a job at the CNE
Job search: Ainsley Hylton, 16, of Toronto fills out an application for a job at the CNE
Eglinton, Rick
8/4/1988
Job seekers: Customers at the Square One shopping Centre are using Canada's first stand-alone computer containing thousands of job listings across Canada
Job seekers: Customers at the Square One shopping Centre are using Canada's first stand-alone computer containing thousands of job listings across Canada
Stuparyk, Michael
11/27/1990
Oshawa Gm Plant job applicants
Oshawa Gm Plant job applicants
Irish, Paul
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