Technology shifts gears. The workers who control it need to learn how to shift gears, too. Workers brought up with universal schooling would respect authority, learn enough "geometry and mechanics" to use in their trades, keep invention alive, and finally see through "the interested complaints of faction and sedition." In other…

The current economic squeeze on campuses has resulted in the increased use of part-time faculty. The advantages and disadvantages are outlined with emphasis on the advantages and the obvious growing necessity for the use of part-time personnel. (JMF)

Discusses manpower requirements' relationship to higher education. (PG)

Suggests that Canada's rates of immigration and migration are closely bound to that nation's sequence of development. (Author)

Julian Josephson finds the environmental employment picture bleak, but far from hopeless. He looks at training and future trends, and lists a number of leads aimed at helping the unemployed. (Author/BT)

The educational problems of the migrant worker, isolated from his home and the victim of social prejudice, are receiving attention from UNESCO. (JH)

This paper examines the contributions of Industrial Engineering and Management Science toward reduction in the cost of production and distribution of food. Food processing firms were requested to respond to a questionnaire which asked for examples of their use of various operations research tools and information on the number of operations…

Through an analytic technique this monograph studies the economic impact of the ratio of benefits to costs of the vocational rehabilitation process. The primary purpose of the research was to compare the relative value of the rehabilitation for the culturally disadvantaged to that of the medically disabled by benefit-cost analysis. The results of…

This annotated bibliography is composed of 196 citations which primarily represent the period from 1960 to 1970. It presents a variety of sources on local and national manpower information. Listings are arranged alphabetically according to author under the general divisions of Population, Manpower Information, Economic Information, Labor Force…

The paper seeks to emphasize certain important dimensions of the economics of worker alienation which have been underemphasized, if not overlooked. Most satisfying jobs are not available without cost to someone. Workers often face a choice between job satisfaction and pecuniary rewards. With this context in mind., the author discusses several…

This report contains abstracts and discussions of papers and speeches delivered at the 1971 New Manpower Researchers Conference. These include speeches by Charles Schultze on incentives in the public sector, one by Congressman William Steiger on manpower reform, and one by Maurice Mann on government economic controls. The abstracted topics include…

Argues that techniques for measuring returns to education must be developed. The reliance of productivity on quality of education is stressed. The productivity question in higher education is not one of how to reduce the time and money spent on each student, but that of increasing the student's output during his work life. (Author/AM)