# Employment problems in south-east Drenthe

A regional event was held in Emmen to maintain and expand employment. SHOTS: ext. concert hall Emmen; peat cutter at work; mechanization in agriculture and peat cutting; int. and ext. various factories; aerial shots Emmen; ext. town hall and int. social service; cu. weekly statements to be handed in by unemployed; ext. Fortress shoes industry with indoor caravans in winter storage; pan. industrial area with factories of ENKA; headlines about mass layoffs at AKZO and ENKA; statue of woman putting on pantyhose; int. Danlon (Jansen de Wit) hosiery factory, with a.o. seamstresses at work in the hall, machines standing still and a half-empty company canteen. DECLARATIONS during the manifestation by a speaker who reported that unemployment in South-East Drenthe has always been much higher than in the rest of the Netherlands, and a man who argued that the sock and stocking industry should be retained for Emmen.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_671196)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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