The National Labor Relations Board by law has authority over professional employees but not supervisory employees. The problems this creates for salaried professionals who are becoming more and more organized are discussed. Available from: Forham University School of Law, Lincoln Center, 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023. (LBH)

Structural changes in international economy may give rise to a reemergence of full employment programs. Such initiatives must address the special problem of minority unemployment and must develop new approaches to avoid the difficulties experienced by such programs in the 1970s. Quality work for decent, secure wages must be assured. (VM)

Discusses the issue of hiring part-time faculty to teach college English courses. Suggests several ways to improve the situation. (MM)

Discusses the issue of hiring part-time faculty to teach college English courses. Describes how the English department at Pennsylvania State University was forced to deal with this problem. (MM)

Results of interviews with 173 younger and 163 middle-aged and older couples revealed that life strains were more closely linked to patterns of depressive symptoms in younger couples with strains tending to be greatest for couples in which both spouses reported depressive symptoms. (Author)

Discusses some of the problems in employment shifts and unemployment caused by new technologies in offices and factories. Addresses the Job Training Partnership Act (Title III) which was established as the primary assistance vehicle for displaced workers. Calls for workers to receive sufficient time to adjust to technologies. (TW)

Surveyed Black engineering graduates of the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School about their experiences in school; their mandatory, cooperative internship assignments; and their employment experiences after graduation. Found the majority perceived problems in the classroom, their internships, and in their employment, because of…

Youth unemployment in Sweden and its repercussions on upper secondary education are analyzed. To allow theoretical education in the upper secondary school to be available to everyone is to educate for unemployment and ignore the problems. (RM)

Notes the efforts of some universities to lure top professors from other universities. Reveals problems, such as raising the needed money and funding eminent scholars, and considers some positive aspects of the trend, such as the creation of new courses and emphases, and the clarification of priorities of a department. (EL)

This group of articles discuss a variety of studies related to vocational training and youth unemployment in both developing and developed nations. (SSH)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

This group of articles discusses a variety of studies related to social security and retirement benefits. These studies are related to both developing and developed nations and are also concerned with studying work conditions and government role in administering a democratic social security system. (SSH)

Although it is often claimed that much current unemployment is "structural," the term is potentially misleading because it is poorly defined. The author identifies the following seven major elements in its make-up: changes in industrial structure, skill mismatch, geographical mismatch, demographic shifts, institutional rigidities,…