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Bentley, Marion T.; Hansen, Gary B. – Training and Development Journal, 1980
Gives a brief history of productivity improvement legislation in the United States and of the development and demise of the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life (QWL). Describes existing productivity and QWL centers, including their locations, scope, services, and activities, and urges greater support at the federal level.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Federal Programs, Information Centers, Productivity
Barry, Tom – Southwest Economy & Society, 1979
Describes the history of nuclear development in New Mexico, notes the cumulative detrimental effect on the Navajo Nation, and emphasizes federal inaction regarding health and safety standards and regulation in the nuclear power industry. Journal availability: see RC 503 522. (SB)
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Energy
Peer reviewedMoeti, Moitsadi – Phylon, 1986
Gold mining brought a forced labor system to Witwatersrand, South Africa, in the 1880s as African laborers were rounded up from the hinterland and delivered to the mines. The system produced low wages, high mortality, and the loss of chances for upward mobility. Forced labor persists today in South African mines. (VM)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employment Practices, Foreign Countries, Labor
