Through self-analysis of job performance, job problem-solving groups, and self-management, special needs students learn how to take control of their actions, solve problems, make appropriate decisions, and maintain skills that will help them to be successful on the job. (BJV)

Experiences of 165 Chinese immigrants to San Francisco (California) who arrived between 1965 and 1975 suggest that workers employed in the ethnic labor market (enclave economy) have lower wages, higher turnover, and less promotional opportunities than workers in other labor markets. Positive aspects of the enclave economy are discussed. (SLD)

Studies 12 black women in solo status positions in academia. Solo status is being the only member, or one of a small number, of a sex or racial group or both, in the workplace. As double solos, these women felt they had to outperform majority group counterparts. Common perceptions of barriers and facilitators are discussed. (SLD)

Underemployment is the focus of this transcript of a radio series published as an electronic weekly magazine concerned with issues in education. The first of a 2-part series, this program incorporates studio interviews with: James O'Toole of the Center for the Study of the Future; a ceramics college graduate working as a shipping clerk; various…

Problems of faculty unionization cases stemming from the application of laws and doctrines developed for industrial labor situations to an academic setting and findings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are discussed. It is suggested that NLRB jurisdiction depends on definition of the role of the faculty. (BH)

Using interview data from 42 working, lower- and underclass African-American female college students, this article challenges the primacy of the cultural argument that educational failure of African-American women is primarily the result of their adherence to oppositional cultural forms and a preindustrial sense of time that inhibits success in…

Examined Latack-Dozier model of career growth through job loss using a sample of 515 involuntarily displaced professionals. Results supported the model and identified variables most predictive of career growth for men and women. Found partial support for hypothesis that men and women rely on different forms of social support after job loss. (JBJ)

Unemployment is the focus of this transcript of a radio series published as an electronic weekly magazine concerned with issues in education. The second of a 2-part series, this program incorporates studio interviews with Elliot Liebow, anthropologist and author of "Tally's Corner" and with William Harwood, of New Schools Exchange, who both react…

This article cites a variety of sources and synthesizes a number of studies on the social implications of technological innovations (microelectronics). These studies were related to six European and Asian countries and were also concerned with the international division of labor. (SSH)

There is little evidence to support the view that schools are responsible for economic problems and/or that they are the key to solving them. As long as such views remain dominant, however, American educational goals will continue to be captive to the profit motive of American industry. (JBM)

A seven-year longitudinal study of Edmonton (Alberta) students who were high school seniors in 1985 found that exposure to higher education liberalized student attitudes toward immigrants, that over time individuals who did not continue their education became less accepting of immigrants, and that labor market difficulties and differences in…

A recent expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area's heavy rail system represents an exogenous change in the accessibility of inner-city minority communities to a concentrated suburban employment center. We evaluate this natural experiment by conducting a two-wave longitudinal survey of firms, with the first wave of interviews conducted immediately…

William Julius Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" blames the rise in the Black urban underclass on the rapid, systemic, and structural changes in the economy in the 1970s, which left Black unemployment at a spectacularly high rate. His insights should be acknowledged and his recommendations heeded. (BJV)

Most of the job losses that occurred in New York City after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center occurred in low-wage jobs held by lower-skilled workers. Many of those affected faced multiple obstacles limiting their employment prospects, including limited literacy and English language skills and a lack of "connections" to…