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Synopsis Work capital is movable. What about humans? “Human Capital – The Employment Trade“ portrays the fate of three people and their struggle through the global world of work: Chamila Alvis moves from Sri Lanka to Cyprus. She struggles with her separation from her children and her home land and tries to deal with the foreign world she has entered... Dirk Wagner and Volker Nebelung try to escape the construction recession in East Germany. They prepare themselves for a trip to Europe’s largest construction site, in London... Jay Gaines, a headhunter in New York, searches desperately on Wall Street for candidates for the position of head executive of a gigantic corporation. If he doesn’t find ‚Mr Perfect’ soon, he will risk not only hunderds of thousands of dollars, but also his good reputation... page 1 OVAL FILMEMACHER Görlitzer Straße 40 10997 Berlin www.oval-film.com
Content (1/3) These days, if you wanted to guess what someone’s income was and were only allowed to ask one question, that question would be: “What country do you live in?” The reason for this is the huge differences in the average incomes of different countries. In twenty years you will have to ask a different question in order to guess someone’s wages: “What is your training and education?” Bill Gates, Business@ the Speed of Thought This prophesy of Bill Gates’ is on its way to becoming true. The worth of a human in the employment world depends on his or her skills and on the state of the market; Humans are becoming easily replaceable labor capital. This ‚capital’ can be moved from one company to another; from one continent to another. This migration of workers has created a new industry: private recruitment agencies. Changing one’s job and often even one’s country of residence means exchanging a new world for an old one. This can be very difficult on a personal level. This ‚human capital’ is, after all, simply people. Columbia, Sri Lanka: CHAMILA ALVIS doesn’t know how she can support her three small children, now that her husband has died in an accident. There is no work for her in Sri Lanka. She gets up the courage to go to an interview with an agency that arranges to send cheap female labor to Europe. She plans to start as a housemaid in Cypress. Magdeburg, Germany: Two of the hundreds of unemployed construction workers from East Germany, VOLKER NEBELUNG and DIRK WAGNER learn about jobs in foreign countries at the job exchange. An attractive Dutch woman promises them very well-paid work in London. They will help to construct Terminal 5 of the London Heathrow airport. But first they must pass a twomonth English course. New York, USA: the headhunter Jay Gaines only places people in senior positions, that is, positions with earnings starting at $600,000 a year. He is page 2 OVAL FILMEMACHER Görlitzer Straße 40 10997 Berlin www.oval-film.com
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