Realizing the relationship of productivity to technological, organizational, and manpower variables, and the need to improve and increase production gains, this document examines existing public and private entrepreneurial and industrial relations structures in an effort to ascertain manpower policy measures which if strengthened or introduced…

This report culminates 2 years of a major policy inquiry into New York's manpower problems by the State Senate's Special Senate Committee on Manpower. Part One gives data showing unemployment by occupation, race, education, and place of residence. The effects on the disadvantaged of changing employment patterns are demonstrated, and various…

Thirty-nine individuals from 20 countries in the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) took part in a twelve-day seminar. Ten papers dealing with the ways in which demography factors relate to manpower were presented. The seminar's three objectives were to provide an opportunity for exchange of information, knowledge, and…

The U.S. Department of Labor and the Japanese Ministry of Labor cooperatively reviewed the employment policies in the two countries in an attempt to promote understanding and cooperation between them and to develop the human capacities of workers in both countries. The report is composed of four parts: (1) Introduction, (2) Policies and Programs…

Documents shifts and changes in participation in industry for the black labor force in the South from 1940 to 1970. (EH)

Three measures of labor force underutilization supplemental to the official unemployment estimates presented are: (1) labor force time lost, (2) various full-time equivalent unemployment rates, and (3) a weighted index of unemployment severity. (Author/EA)

Over 100 representatives of business, labor, government agencies, and educational and research institutions attended the second Manpower Symposium from which these papers and discussion summaries were compiled to encourage efforts by those evolving manpower policy to shape a comprehensive national strategy for the effective development and full…

For more than three centuries, college graduates have enjoyed a preferred place in the U. S. job market. The report evaluates predictions about the future job market and indicates necessary adjustments for campuses, public policy, employers, and young people themselves. The appendices contain statistical tables related to the text, and previous…

This report defines manpower planning and explains its current popularity. The experiences of individual businesses are used to develop techniques for projecting manpower supply and demand and future manpower needs. The role of manpower in the corporate plan is considered. (BH)

The data presented in this publication update the information on current allied health manpower requirements, supply, and deficits that was published in the 1969 Report to the President and the Congress on the Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966, as amended. Section 21 also provides projections for 1975 and 1980. (Author)

Information about the status of working women and their underutilization in the national work force is presented in summary and graph form. Although progress has been made in assuring women equality of pay and nondiscrimination in employment, much work needs to be done to improve the utilization of their abilities. The barriers are still high…

The supply of and demand for sociologists and anthropologists in the U.S. as of October 1965 was assessed by a national survey of known and possible employers. Of 2,448 reporting organizations, 1,424 employed, or anticipated employing, sociologists or anthropologists. A total of 6,619 sociologists and 2,117 anthropologists were employed in the…

The study of manpower requirements has received much attention since 1960, but it may be argued that the results of these studies did not come up to the expectations of those involved in the conduct of manpower research. The high percentage of unemployed professionals we are now experiencing brings us to formulate vigorous objections toward…

A historical look at labor conditions 200 years ago focuses on the employment practices utilized by the colonialists to meet their labor needs. These practices included bound labor and slavery. (EC)

Examines the reasons behind the confusing unemployment situation, characterized by a sharp decline in joblessness at the close of 1977, suggesting that this was primarily the result of two unusual developments, rather than any solid "improvement" in economic conditions. Five recent trends in the labor market were considered. (Author/RK)