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Times are changing in the workplace. Overall, young people are less eager to join the labor market than previous generations, particularly since COVID shutdowns. Many companies are turning to retired, part-time workers because they say they have a more serious work ethic. Traditional first jobs for

The majority of women in rural Iowa had domestic jobs in the 1950s. Many of those women turned on the radio due to isolation on a farm. Radio homemakers helped women with their domestic duties as "neigbors on the air". The documentary also contains interviews with radio homemaker Evelyn Birkby, historian Chuck Offenburger, and historian Tom Morain.