These two volumes contain hearings of the first and second sessions on the manpower act bills: H.R. 10908, to develop and strengthen a systematic national, state and local manpower policy and provide for a comprehensive delivery of manpower services; H.R. 11620, to assure an opportunity for employment to every American seeking work and to make…

The review of the statistical data available at the present time for manpower planning in the field of librarianship suggests some of the developments which are necessary to make it a more satisfactory tool. (Author/NH)

The article is an outline of the author's address at the Ontario Training Directors' Association meeting held in Toronto. (BP)

A two-day Health Manpower Planning Conference was held at State College, Pennsylvania, in 1971. The speakers represented a variety of organizations with responsibility for aspects of manpower planning and others not normally involved in planning. Program content was structured in such a way as to broaden the context within which manpower issues…

Reported are data regarding employment of scientists and engineers at doctorate-granting institutions. Employment of scientists and engineers in January 1974, was up 3 percent. Almost all of the increase was due to the increase in the number of life scientists. The greatest declines were in the number of psychologists and engineers. Women…

This report investigates the training and retaining of physicians for Washington. The report concludes: (1) Washington does not have a desperate overall shortage of physicians, but the state is faced with serious physician distribution problems, particularly in urban ghetto and rural areas. (2) The University of Washington's School of Medicine is…

Excerpt from the 1973 Manpower Report of the President discusses the effects of the Nation's declining birthrate on schools, health care, population density, and immigration. (Editor)

The study predicts future requirements for biological scientists by specialty area, future supply within area, and the effects of National Institutes of Health program alternatives on requirements and supply measures. At present and for the forseeable future, approved training grants for critical shortage areas are funded as rapidly as centers of…

This report describes the fourth in a series of annual conferences of doctoral candidates who have received dissertation research grants from the Manpower Administration. These conferences are designed to provide opportunities for the candidates to discuss their work with each other and to meet senior manpower specialists. In the 1970 conference,…

This paper argues that, in addition to responding to surface manifestations of imbalance in scientific manpower supply and demand, we should examine and understand far better than we now do the nature and extent of the structural forces operative on the supply and demand of scientific talent. The author reviewed the literature and the parameters…

An overview of manpower development and its problems in South Africa. (AN)

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