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| Industrial Relations | 1 |
| Manpower | 1 |
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| Borus, Michael E. | 1 |
| Burt, Samuel M. | 1 |
| Gurin, Gerald | 1 |
| Hardin, Einer | 1 |
| Hoerner, Harry J. | 1 |
| Lehmann, Phyllis E. | 1 |
| Main, Earl D. | 1 |
| Stevenson, William W. | 1 |
| Striner, Herbert E. | 1 |
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| Alabama | 1 |
| Illinois (Chicago) | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 1 |
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| Manpower Development and… | 7 |
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Lehmann, Phyllis E. – Manpower, 1970
This 44-week course in mine machine maintenance for the unemployed and the underemployed provides skills useful in any heavy industry using sophisticated machinery. (BH)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Federal Programs, Machine Repairers, Underemployment
Peer reviewedHardin, Einer; Borus, Michael E. – Industrial Relations, 1972
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation
Download full textBurt, Samuel M.; Striner, Herbert E. – 1968
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the efforts of private industry to employ and train the hard-core unemployed youth and adults of this nation. The time has come, however, for a change in the continuing pattern of employers engaging in experimental and demonstration projects, each learning anew what others have learned about…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Government Employees, Government Role
Gurin, Gerald – 1968
Results of a study of an experimental and demonstration job training project (Chicago JOBS Project) for approximately 1,500 underemployed "functionally illiterate" inner-city Negro youth are reported. The project, which lasted from September of 1963 to the summer of 1964, included basic education, vocational training, and group and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Black Youth, Dropouts
Hoerner, Harry J.; Stevenson, William W. – 1968
The purpose of this study was to measure possible effects of post-manpower training counseling of an occupational nature upon certain facets of perception and behavior of 110 subjects from eight selected Oklahoma Manpower Development and Training Act classes held during 1967-68. The effects of the counseling treatment were measured by the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
Main, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
Tuskegee Inst., AL. – 1968
A project to provide basic education, counseling and occupational training to 125 unemployed or underemployed heads of families or households from rural areas of Alabama, and to secure employment for them at the conclusion of the program was conducted at Tuskegee. The four technical areas in which training was offered were brickmasonry, carpentry,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Bricklaying
