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I Lost My Job (2012)

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Posted by Films For Action on Apr. 17, 2012

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I Lost My Job is a short documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people's lives - namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also examines what we can do about it as a society through the analysis of a transitional direction.

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