Skill Upgrading in Cleveland (SUIC) is one of three manpower training and upgrading organizations which was funded to replicate and further test the High Intensity Training (HIT) model for upgrading underemployed workers. This report is a summary of activities aimed at upgrading low-skill, low-wage workers within a plant setting and with small…

"American Indians are the poorest of any nonwhite minority in the United States. Life on the reservation offers them few opportunities: if they move to the city, they face problems of adjustment that can prove insurmountable. What is being done--what more could be done--to help Indians satisfy their needs in a largely alien society? To develop the…

Although blacks in the Southern region made up 19 percent of the 1970 population, only about 11 percent of all bachelor's degrees and 9.6 percent of all master's degrees in the region in 1974 went to blacks. Black representation varies widely among fields of study, ranging at the bachelor's level from 2 percent in architecture to 23 percent in…

The dimensions and determinants of positional inequality in the American occupational structure are examined. Using data from the 1972-1973 Quality of Employment Survey, dimensions of occupational differentiation with multiple discriminant analysis are constructed and a causal model is developed to represent the interrelationships of those…

Based on information provided by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Agency Offices and by the Indian Health Service, this publication provides profiles of 46 Indian reservations located in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. These profiles include data on reservations that are: (1) located partially or totally in the adjoining States of Oregon, California,…

Utilizing the 1947, 1957, and l965 census data and the 1970 preliminary population count, the relationship between population growth and redistribution and development planning in Iraq was examined. Trends in rural-urban population growth, migration, and population redistribution were examined as they pertained to the socioeconomic development…

The project was designed to test the feasibility of a variety of service techniques to assist chronically unemployed older workers in obtaining employment. Individuals between the ages of 45-65 who were unemployed for at least 15 months were eligible for the project. The clients were assigned to three basic groupings: (1) a rehabilitation workshop…

When evaluating the potential of a developing nation's rural youth, a distinction must be made between youth living in the countryside and those of rural origin migrating to the cities. Moreover, consideration must be given to the effect of: geographical mobility upon national development requirements; rural vertical mobility upon the…

The research reported in this paper is concerned with: the continued shrinkage of the area commonly known as the Southern black belt -- counties in the old South having a major proportion of their populations consisting of Negroes -- up until 1970; the recent role migration has played in black population loss; and the probable effects of lengthy…

This manual presents a training program developed from an assessment of what the manpower counselor must be able to do based upon the overall goals of manpower training. The training package is divided into eight general competency areas: counseling techniques (individual and group), staff relationships. client information and referral services,…

The annotated bibliography, review of literature, and glossary of terms contained in this document relate to current and past trends in job design. Topics covered are Quality of Work Life; Conceptual and Theoretical Framework for Job Design; Measurement of Tasks and Job Structural Attributes and Tasks; Survey Research on Job Design; Case, Field,…

This study is one of a series of documents resulting from the Survey of Second Language Teaching, which investigated second language learning as a factor in national development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The aspect discussed here concerns professional evaluations, opinions and recommendations of individuals and organizations involved in…

Numerous studies conducted by the Committee for Studies on Regions under Industrialization of the Polish Academy of Sciences provide the basis for historical analysis and regional comparison relative to concept formation, program guidelines, and program implementation procedures for rational human factor management. The exhaustion of Poland's…

An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 593 (310 female, 283 male) freshmen entering the University of Maryland, College Park. Their responses were analyzed by analysis of variance, Scheffe post hoc tests and chi square, all at the .05 level. Results showed that women looked more favorably upon women's studies as an academic discipline than…

Of 40,000 Ph.D.s a year forecast for the 1980s, only one-third may get jobs related to their specialty, and only one-tenth jobs in academe. It is suggested that enormous counterpressures, mainly from the faculty, are keeping market forces from operating, and institutions keep producing doctoral graduates. (Author/LBH)