While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum of hours worked, could lower barriers to higher…

De-industrialisation and the development of the "service economy" have had a profound impact on the nature of work and employment in contemporary Britain. Theories of post- and reflexive modernity argue that individuals are able to reflexively reconstruct their identities in line with new social and workplace requirements. Yet,…

A scale, developed to measure an individual's attitude toward work and the relationship between length of unemployment time and work attitudes, was administered to subjects who were: (1) employed workers--in unskilled, semi-skilled, and occasionally skilled jobs; (2) unemployed but actually seeking employment; (3) chronically unemployed. The scale…

The Ford factory in Cologne, Germany, uses a variety of flexible learning methods to enable unskilled and semiskilled workers to acquire vocational qualifications. Methods include tutorials, simulations, micro worlds, and hypermedia databases. (SK)

Examines how union policies regarding training have developed to confront the problems of workers with low skill levels. Looks at the findings of a comparative study of policies in France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy. (JOW)

The Proposition that Herzberg's bipartite analysis of job satisfaction oversimplifies by failing to take account of variations in work orientation was tested empirically and corroborated; dominant rewards for expressively oriented workers are intrinsic, for instrumentally oriented workers, extrinsic. Management should ascertain variations in…

The study focuses on determining whether supervisor's evaluation of the performance of their blue-collar subordinates are consistent with the central life interests of the workers being appraised. (AJ)

A review of the relevant literature, which is the first of two parts of this study, found that the existing literature is sparse and presents a fragmented picture of the information environment of the blue collar adult. The second part was a pilot survey, undertaken to probe this information environment, and consisted of intensive living room…

This article presents a critique of the 'high skills' argument which, in the international literature, presents a high skill strategy as an adjunct and necessary condition for the successful expansion of human resources development (HRD) alongside social market institutions and 'joined up' policy. For a developing country such as South Africa,…

This report details the development of a program for the short-term training of security guards, including conceptual, instructional, and administrative concerns. It is designed to serve as a model for other similar retraining programs. The original objectives of the program were outlined as being (1) the removal of persons from the category of…

The book examines the effect of class barriers on blue collar workers by mirroring occupational/ethnic backgrounds of the white manual-laboring population in the Boston area through urban anthropological observations as well as 150 in-depth interviews conducted in 1969-70. It mainly reflects the experience of middle-aged, third generation American…

A study of 678 unskilled and semiskilled workers found that (1) those receiving on-the-job training were paid less and had less seniority; (2) those with off-the-job training (OFJT) or refresher courses had more seniority and more promotions; (3) OFJT related to lower projected longevity; and (4) educational level was related to pay. (SK)

Interest in recent years has centered on the purposes, forms, effects, and magnitude of private sector training of employees. Demand for detailed and accurate information on these subjects has arisen within idustry itself, within government agencies, education and research institutions, and organized labor. This monograph is an attempt to supply a…

A study was conducted to explore the relationship between anomia (a feeling of alienation, of being cut off from society), attitude toward adult education, and nonparticipation in formal adult education activities. The subjects of the study were adults who lived in a specific area in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which had the following characteristics:…