The employment crisis will not be caused by a less male, less white, and less English-speaking labor force. The future employment crisis will be, as always, on the supply side of the labor market. The number of new jobs does not match the number of people entering the work force. Jobs have been lost in manufacturing, while jobs in services have…

Prepared for users of OCLC terminals at the Michigan State University library, this manual provides a brief description of the contents of the OCLC database, instructions for constructing search requests in OCLC, guidelines for interpreting OCLC search results, a key to "reading" the OCLC screen, an overview of typical terminal responses…

Two papers on rare books and documents which were delivered at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference are presented. In "Museums of the Book: Their Problems and Their Relations to Libraries," Jaroslav Vrchotka (Czechoslovakia) provides a discussion of museum activities, noting similarities and…

When the American Civil War ended, the southern aristocracy turned to sharecropping as a means for continuing its existence and for keeping former slaves in the fields. Tenant families during the economic depression of 1929 were forced to live in squalid conditions, and the natural antagonism between whites and blacks was exacerbated by the…

A bargaining process, begun over 10 years ago, is based on problem-solving rather than on adversarial confrontation and uses elements of participative management. It has resulted in outstanding benefits for two school districts. Called "Theory Z bargaining," the process follows a procedure based on each side treating the other with…

A labor/management class, thought to be unique in the area of public sector labor relations and personnel work-study programs, its goal being to have each side come to know the other's position more clearly and with more understanding, is described. (Author/AJ)

A follow-up to a survey of a group of students using the National Extension College's home study course, "How to Study Effectively", compares the progress of part of the workers enrolled under special union arrangements with that of a group of more traditional students. (EA)

Based on the findings of the Management Employee Relations in Corrections (MERIC) project, this management guide for correctional administrators is designed to facilitate enlightened and responsible management within the context of public sector labor relations. The introduction to the guide describes the MERIC study and discusses trends in state…

The interaction effects among organizational commitment, perceived personal efficacy, and expectations with respect to the impact of collective bargaining are explored in relation to their effect on the degree of faculty support for collective bargaining. Data for the analysis was derived from approximately 1,450 full-time faculty in California…

Faculty unions have achieved a prominent place in American higher education. This study attempts to focus on the consequences arising from collective bargaining in higher education. The Stanford Project on Academic Governance was begun in 1971 as an effort to study the impact of collective bargaining on governance and decisionmaking in higher…

This document examines three process environment factors (communications networks, morale of consortia members, and teacher's union attitudes) and their influence on the responses of educational institutions to a New York State Department of Education mandate on performance based teacher education (PBTE). In studying the communications networks,…

The AFL-CIO raises some questions critical of the concept and course of career education. (Author)

Higher education collective bargaining cases reviewed in this chapter follow the basic sequence of steps in the negotiation process, from issues of the rights of organization and negotiation through scope of bargaining, bargaining conduct, and union security to the ultimate problems of strikes and contract enforcement. Within this common outline,…

Intended primarily for educators, legislators, and the general public in the state of Pennsylvania, this public affairs brochure addresses the question of whether binding arbitration should be legislated in that state as a means of resolving labor disputes between a local school district and its employees. The brochure reviews the history of…