Job design or redesign (intended to create a more meaningful working environment that meets the needs of people as well as the organization) is discussed in terms of job rotation, work simplification, job enlargement, job enrichment, and other concepts relating to successfully redesigning other's jobs as part of effective management. (TA)

Discusses and briefly reviews the history of the concept, quality of working life. Focus is on various initiatives and views taken by Federal and State governments, managements, trade unions, universities, and a number of public and private institutions. Federal legislation is also covered. (Editor/SH)

The world of work is composed of contradictory conditions which schooling tries to mediate through a reproductive process. The present organization of production based on wage-labor is inherently self-contradictory in that the interests of management and labor are directly opposed. School prepares individuals to deal with the types of peer…