Four half-hour programs that blend spicy interviews with poetry, storytelling and song, plus plenty of gritty location sound.|CATCHING ON Produced by Audrey Coleman - SERIES: Worklore : stories, songs, poems, and traditions of the wrokplace| no. 1 - CONTENT: How do we catch on to our jobs when we're just starting? Bank tellers, iron workers, and lobster fisherman tell us how greenhorns learn their occupations. This show takes us from a harbor of Cape Neddick, Maine to a high-rise banking institution in L.A. to a construction site where Mohawk Indian iron workers carry on a proud tradition of work welding the beams on high steel. Also represented among the rookies and veterans is a new generation of iron workers - women from the L.A. area. Contains readings of: "Once When I Was A Bank Clerk" by Glen Sorestad, from Paperwork, edited by Tom Wayman, Canada, 1991, Harbour Publishing. Restricted distribution rights. Contains copyrighted music. BROADCAST: Satellite, Aug. 1993
How do we catch on to our jobs when we're just starting? Bank tellers, iron workers, and lobster fisherman tell us how greenhorns learn their occupations. This show takes us from a harbor of Cape Neddick, Maine to a high-rise banking institution in L.A. to a construction site where Mohawk Indian iron workers carry on a proud tradition of work welding the beams on high steel. Also represented among the rookies and veterans is a new generation of iron workers: women from the L.A. area.
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