This essay presents a case study of the modes used in training employees at a munitions plant in Ohio between 1940 and 1945. Theories of multimodal discourse and learning advanced by The New London Group (1996), Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen (2001) and Richard Mayer (2001) inform this analysis. With an unskilled labor force and many workers…

The expansion of higher education in Taiwan starting from the late 1980s has successfully raised the average level of education. Using the concept of the education Gini, we find that the educational inequality declined as average schooling rose during the period of 1976-2003. The impacts of a rising average schooling and a declining educational…

This document is the last of a three-volume study designed to examine low-wage, low-skilled workers, within the context of their work environment, and to develop ways of measuring the effects of skill advancement training upon the program participants. Volume III, Parts I and II, contains modified employee pre- and post-test interview schedules…

Sufficient experience with hiring and training programs for hard core unemployed has been accumulated to spell out the fundamentals on supervisor training, entry jobs, recruitment, employment practices, evaluation, remedial education, and supportive services. (LY)

Discusses some ways to help in training unskilled, marginal workers including explaining job importance, emphasizing critical points, allowing mistakes, keeping training sessions brief, using positive reinforcement, and rewarding progress. (JOW)

The purpose of this case study was to explore how low-skilled workers who participated in a health care training program learned to acquire the technical, cognitive, and developmental competencies they needed to gain skilled employment in higher-level positions in the field and thus advance their careers. The data methods used were: (1) in-depth…

Presents findings of a study of Caribbean undocumented immigrants in the Flatbush-Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Focuses on employment among this group, and suggests that these illegal immigrants do, in fact, compete in the labor market with American-born, unskilled workers. (GC)

This paper finds that the ready availability of illegal-immigrant workers from Mexico in major industries in the Southwest region of the United States is having far-reaching and often unanticipated consequences for patterns of investment, employment, and business competition. It reviews the displacement of U.S. workers by illegal immigrants in…

This report is a supplement to an earlier report entitled North Carolina Mobility Project, 1968-69. The report covers Mobility's relocation assistance activities between September 1, 1969 and September 30, 1970, a thirteen month period encompassing three extensions to Contract Number 87-35-68-06. During the period covered by this report as well as…