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…

Review of statistical data confirms worldwide trends: growth in services, decline in agriculture, and, in manufacturing, decline in industrialized economies but growth in developing ones. Although services are characterized by low productivity growth, certain types (such as research and development) exert positive influence on economic growth. (SK)

Analysis of Current Population Survey data shows that wage rates of both African-American and white workers are significantly lower in occupational groups with high densities of African-American workers. Results are most consistent with a quality sorting explanation and to a lesser extent with the crowding hypothesis. (Author/SK)

Analysis of British married women's employment decisions indicates that differences in wage offers between full- and part-time employment are important determinants of working full-time. Women who work despite low earning power, husbands' high income, or discouraging family circumstances tend to work part-time. (SK)

Estimates of interindustry wage differences using National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men data show that 84% of variance is explained by individual fixed effects. Although efficiency wage theories predict that differences should widen in a recession, these data do not demonstrate such a tendency. (SK)

Reduced form equations performed on data from the Employment Opportunities Pilot Projects found that many employed and unemployed job seekers reject at least one offer before accepting a job. Most accept an offer with a wage below the estimated reservation wage. (SK)

Suggests the field of communication studies is substantially marked by a nearly exclusive emphasis on culture that risks ignoring a powerful class antagonism between workers and employers. Notes that current literature in the field emphasizes voice, identity, and cultural microstrategies in the workplace rather than on labor's agency in winning…

A Nation at Risk (NAR; National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) had a tremendous impact on what schools do and has since spawned other reforms that attest to the report's ongoing influence. Coming in the wake of a decade of economic stagnation and import pressures from overseas producers, the authors of NAR blamed these problems on…

Adopted by the 18th Convention of the AFL-CIO, this document contains discussions and resolutions in four areas: economics; international trade and investment; takeovers, mergers, and leveraged buyouts; and employment and training. The discussion on the economic situation focuses on unemployment and the economy, inadequate jobless benefits, jobs…

After declining steadily for more than a century, the number of Americans working for themselves has begun to stabilize. Data regarding distribution by race, sex, and age as well as by occupation and industry are tabulated for the period 1967 to 1973, and cyclical relationships analyzed. (MW)

Discusses the validity and usefulness of the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Consumer Price Index in collective negotiations decisions. (JF)

Innovations in data processing permit more intensive analysis of major collective bargaining settlements. (Author)

Reprinted from the Fall 1968 issue of "Daedalus.