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Peer reviewedEvans, Robert Jr. – Monthly Labor Review, 1972
The paternalistic industrial system is not likely to be discarded soon; in today's fast-moving economy, it affords cost flexibility and employment security. (Editor)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Industrial Structure, Labor Conditions, Labor Economics
Download full textBureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Boston, MA. New England Regional Office. – 1973
The economy of the six New England states expanded swiftly during 1972, with 67,000 jobs being added, which moved the job total close to the previous record of 1969. A slowdown was observed in the rise of both prices and wages in New England under Phase II of the Economic Stabilization Program. However, retail food prices rose four times as much…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Swedish Inst., Stockholm. – 1989
This paper contains an overview of labor market policy in Sweden. It refers to job placement services and other more or less selective measures to improve opportunities for people to obtain and retain a job. The paper first examines the objectives of labor market policies since the 1950s, then it highlights such labor market trends as the increase…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Foreign Countries, Labor Conditions
Bonacich, Edna – 1977
Racial and ethnic groups often come to play a specialized economic role in the societies in which they live. Race and ethnicity are in themselves of minimal importance. When these boundaries persist, it is because of economic and political reasons. Various examples of subproletariat ethnic groups from societies around the world serve to illustrate…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Ethnic Groups
Serron, Luis A. – 1976
This paper takes a critical look at a demographic study of Mexico, namely, Tad Fisher's "Mexico: The Problem of People". Fisher's study relies heavily on population growth as a poverty generating factor. The paper states that Fisher's study exhibited perceptual narrowness by not considering the Marxist interpretation that capitalist…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Capitalism, Communism, Demography
Freedman, Marcia; Maclachlan, Gretchen
Utilizing Federal census data from 1960 and 1970, this study provides (1) an overview of the job structure of the entire American economy as of 1970, by arranging the jobs in a new occupational-industrial matrix and ranking them in terms of average annual earnings; and (2) an analysis of the structural factors that distinguish the better from the…
Descriptors: Age, Classification, Collective Bargaining, Demography
Browning, Harley L.; Singelmann, Joachim – 1975
Sectoral transformation (inter-industry shifts), which is generally analyzed by use of the Fisher-Clark tri-partite division, is examined in this study dealing mainly with the 1960-1970 decade and based on the 1/100 sample of the 1960 and 1970 censuses. (The Fisher-Clark tri-partite division of labor involves a primary sector--agriculture, mining,…
Descriptors: Classification, Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
