Each year, families travel north from the Texas-Mexico border to New York State to plant and clip celery and onions. These migrants suffer from poor health care, have poor housing, sanitation facilities, and education, and work long hours in the fields. (NQ)

Lists in tabular form job requirements, work environment, and other characteristics of 19 major groups of occupations. (CH)

Tells how a high school newspaper staff's investigations and reports of misuse and mistreatment of teenagers by employers led to an investigation with national implications. Discusses three qualities necessary for good investigative reporting: initiative, discipline, and commitment. (GT)

A comparison of data from a Eugene, Oregon, worker survey with data from the Quality of Employment Survey found that union job dissatisfaction arises from factors independent of wages and working conditions. Union perspectives of working conditions do not accurately reflect objective measures of conditions. The dissatisfaction expressed has real…

A historical look at labor conditions 200 years ago focuses on the employment practices utilized by the colonialists to meet their labor needs. These practices included bound labor and slavery. (EC)

Mexican laborers commute to the U.S. to work in California's fields. (NQ)

Outlines a project in which the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 is used to teach about gathering information from primary sources. Includes suggestions for using this project as a model for analyzing historical events in any location. Emphasizes importance of having students draw conclusions from primary sources. (BSR)

The philosophy and workability of the concept of worker participation in management decisions is discussed in the context of British society. It is recommended that four interests be represented in any kind of Workers' Council: management, workers, shareholders, and consumers. (AG)

Notes that there is no firm evidence pointing to an acceleration of technological change. (JF)

An analysis of unemployment patterns among white and nonwhite heads of households showed unemployment risk determined by job tenure. Nonwhites lost jobs more often than whites when employed for less than six years. Jobs of nonwhites for all tenure lengths were more vulnerable in recession economies. (Author/AM)

This article examines some unpublished survey data which document the magnitude of earnings differences between men and women in the Soviet Union. Factors contributing to these differences are discussed. (Author/EB)

Contracts reflected worker concern over inflation and unemployment, and collective bargaining during the year was heavy, as labor-management negotiations occurred in such key industries as trucking, automobiles, electrical equipment, rubber, and meatpacking. (Editor/TA)

Discusses how some prominent institutions prompt debate by subcontracting the labor-intensive work of putting documents online to vendors in developing countries. Libraries counter that contractors treat overseas employees well. (EV)

Online education encompasses a variety of technologies, one of which is lecture capture--a long-standing practice at the University of Geneva. The faculty of arts has recorded most of its lectures on audiotapes since the 1970s, well before the World Wide Web existed. Modernization of the recording technologies, however, which until recently…

The place where we live and work is a reflection of a complex set of economic conditions and social relationships. Very little information is available regarding housing for Minnesota's migrant workers. It is estimated that approximately 20,000 people migrate to Minnesota each summer to work in the production and processing of green peas and sweet…