Richland County, Ohio has brought together what is generally considered to be the broadest-based private development corporation in the United States. In 1982 a group of bankers and corporate executives made a decision to make a countywide commitment to support one corporate construction exclusively to direct a program and strategy for economic…

This paper reports the problems arising out of, and the solution developed, in adapting dual labor market theory to the evaluation of a CETA youth employment demonstration project. The theory posits that some jobs operate within a primary labor market, and are characterized by good wages and benefits, job security and potential for within firm…

Noting that the employment practices of both large and small newspapers are changing as a result of automation, this paper deals with how automation is affecting the industry employment picture in general and the union employment picture in particular, how the changing employment picture is altering the industry's economic condition, and how…

This historical review describes the educational development of women in higher education. Emphasis is placed on the beginning of formal education for women, secondary and higher education, and higher education and the twentieth century. (MJM)

This paper deals with media centers and how their development has opened up another area of professional employment to broadcasting students. Positions open to them are producer-director, television production manager, small television systems coordinator, and audio-producer-director of a center. (AP)

Surveys the Black family's position vis-a-vis housing, in terms of "no-children" policies, home ownership, and fair-housing and equal opportunity laws in practice. Argues that the future looks no more promising than the present and that Blacks must mobilize to preserve their neighborhoods. (CMG)

Discusses the job market for technical communication graduates and the process for setting up a college degree program in technical communication. (AEA)

Papers presented at the 1979 National Technical Education Conference. Includes: a perspective of technical education, aids in providing quality instruction, opportunities as technical education leaders, values in technical education, opportunities for females in engineering technology, equal access/equal opportunity, and the impact felt as a…

Speculates about the role of museums in the future. (RMH)

This paper examines three topics related to women's involvement in non-traditional occupations: (1) the historical origin of occupational classification; (2) the influence of World War II on women's expanded participation in the workforce; and (3) women's entry into non-traditional occupations. The industrial revolution in Europe and later in the…

This paper examines racism and discrimination against rural blacks, especially as these factors relate to poverty caused by unemployment and underemployment. While overt racism in the rural South and Appalachia was sharply reduced during the 1970s, statistical evidence indicates that related differences, such as the black-white "income…

Because of the problem of lack of progress by minorities and women in the newsrooms of television and radio stations, a survey investigated the types of positions held by minority and non-minority men and women in broadcast news. Subjects, 730 news directors from non-satellite commercial TV stations and commercial radio stations, answered…

Although men and women work in jobs requiring approximately equal levels of education and in occupations with approximately equal prestige, working women earn only about 60% as much on the average as do working men. This disparity in income has important social consequences and is widely perceived as inequitable. One form of this type of…

This paper examines the extent to which educational and other institutions of the dominant society are shaping the ethnic self-identity of Indochinese refugees. It is argued that an institutionally-defined ethnic self-identity is being imposed on the Indochinese as a precondition for consideration as a minority group in United States society.…

One purpose of this paper is to clarify and sharpen categories of social reality that have great emotional and evaluation connotations and consequences. The term "ethnicity" needs clarification. It should refer to the character, style, and way of life taken in by people from their distinct culture. It is not what the naive realism of American…