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Women in Industry: Employment Patterns of Women in Corporate America.
Lyle, Jerolyn R.; Ross, Jane L. – 1973
A research study, the book focuses on the type of jobs which women hold in large industrial firms and the extent of occupational discrimination which they face in the job market. To investigate the nature of occupational discrimination, the authors studied the relationships among 30 characteristics of 246 firms, of which 188 were industrial and 58…
Descriptors: Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies, Economic Factors, Employed Women
Work in America: The Decade Ahead. Work in America Institute Series.
Kerr, Clark, Ed.; Rosow, Jerome M., Ed. – 1979
The results of three national symposia held in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco by the Work in America Institute involving more than 300 leaders from industry, qovernment, labor, communications, and education are summarized in this volume dealing with the work force of the future and the emerging work environment. Changes reported that affect…
Descriptors: Adults, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, Their Symptoms and Policy Responses.
Booth, Alison L., Ed.; Snower, Dennis J., Ed. – 1996
This book provides a systematic account of the causes, consequences, and policy implications of failure in training provision and skills acquisition in the industrial world. "Introduction" (Alison L. Booth, Dennis J. Snower) summarizes the contents. "Transferable Training and Poaching Externalities" (Margaret Stevens) shows how…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Developed Nations, Employment Patterns
The Costs of Worker Dislocation.
Jacobson, Louis; And Others – 1993
A study examined the earnings losses suffered by a group of experienced workers who separated from their firms in the early and mid-1980s. The quarterly earnings histories of a large number of Pennsylvania workers covering the period 1974 through 1986 merged with employment information about their firms served as the data set. Workers' earnings…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Costs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Climate
Public Employees: Facts at a Glance.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, DC. Public Employee Dept. – 1989
Seventeen million people are employed in the delivery of government services in the United States, more than half of these in education, health care, and public safety. Others provide services related to defense, postal service, the environment, housing, and administration. Though 82 percent of public employees work for state and local government,…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Expenditures
Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement.
Kuhn, Peter J., Ed. – 2002
This volume presents 6 papers by 22 labor economists who examine and address worker displacement in 10 industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, United States). "Summary and Synthesis" (Peter J. Kuhn) discusses these four categories of lessons learned from panel…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers
The Dislocated Worker. Preparing America's Workforce for New Jobs.
Kolberg, William H., Ed. – 1983
This book examines the causes of worker displacement in the United States in the context of national economic change. It discusses the promising, through scattered, efforts already underway to help dislocated workers and outlines more far-reaching steps that can be taken with assistance of the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. The book…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.
Rifkin, Jeremy – 1995
This book explores the global economic and social changes that will likely occur as continued technological advancements (especially in the field of computer science) reduce the number of workers needed to produce the goods and services needed by the global population. The book is divided into five sections. Section 1 presents an overview of the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Automation, Blacks, Computers
Working Time in Comparative Perspective. Volume II: Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work.
Houseman, Susan, Ed.; Nakamura, Alice, Ed. – 2001
This is the second of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference "Changes in Working Hours in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under these two topics: working time over the life cycle and nonstandard work arrangements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Comparative Analysis