The reasons are many: a strong sense of pride attached to their status as an established skilled workerrecently in Cumberland. Md.. a small glassblowing firm decided to shut down because two of the five highly skilled glass. blowers planned to retire this summer. Many of the firms 45 employees expressed deep concern over finding new jobs because they were too old to learn a new trade and too young to retiremany - first- or secondgeneration immigrants L are among those tied to a family or community. others have strong labor union ties to a particular line of work. still others display strong resistance to leavI ing relatives and friends to go to a job in a new communitychief among these are middleaged and older workersand many other reasons. Sixth. Personality traits. such as fear. antagonism. slovenly habits. and so forth. show up in the ranks of the chronically unemployed and are a large contributory factor to this problem.
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