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Download full textGordon, Jesse E. – 1971
This paper is concerned with the question of standardization of manpower services. It deals with the extent to which there is too much standardization in the mix of programs, with the cause of standardization, and with what can be done about it. The author proposes: (1) that the solution to over standardization of manpower services lies in…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Job Placement, Labor Conditions, Labor Demands
Cohen, Malcolm S. – 1974
A study was designed to evaluate the need for new labor market information and for methods of making better use of currently collected statistical and administrative data. The project was to demonstrate various information technologies which would improve the delivery of labor market information. Various computer models of labor market information…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Employment, Feasibility Studies, Information Dissemination
Clague, Ewan; Kramer, Leo – 1976
Constituting an update to a previous publication that interpreted the directions of United States manpower policy subsequent to World War II, this publication places the previous essay in the historical context of manpower policies that reach back to the Great Depression of the 1930's and the Employment Act of 1946; and to policy options now…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
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
Wirth, Arthur G. – 1981
The traditional systems used to produce goods and services in this country are being challenged by evolving alternatives. The focus of these new alternatives is on the human element in the work force. Studies in adult work attitudes indicate that a more humanistic system is needed to promote productivity. Inherent in the human condition is the…
Descriptors: Adults, Automation, Education Work Relationship, Employee Attitudes
