This book investigates how workers use computers and how they learn the needed skills, based on a study of 140 occupations in which computers are currently used. Its main finding is that relatively few workers need a lot of computer-related training. Chapter 1, the introduction, discusses the rapid growth and spread of computers across a wide…

Concerned with the treatment of leisure as "an empty, valueless, superficial phenomenon in American culture," the authors conducted a study relating work, leisure, and politics among blue collar workers. Underlying the study was their fundamental hypothesis that "when play is encouraged on the job, the job-holder becomes more committed to his job,…

This publication presents 100 careers the U.S. Department of Labor and other sources project as the fastest growing through the year 2006. A shaded bar on the bottom of the title page of each article contains a listing of codes for three commonly used government classification systems. Shaded bars at the bottom of other pages provide quick facts.…