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Download full textDepartment of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1968
TWO CHIEF AIMS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE TO TAKE A BROAD NEW LOOK AT THE MAJOR PROBLEM AREAS OF CONCERN TO MANPOWER POLICY AND TO POINT THE WAY TOWARD MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND SENSITIVE MEASURES OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THESE AREAS. IN ADDITION TO THE REDUCTION OF JOBLESSNESS AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT, SOME OF THE IMPROTANT AREAS OF MANPOWER CONCERN WHICH…
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Employment Statistics, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Peer reviewedMurray, William E. – Library Hi Tech, 1985
Discusses information gathered in past few years related to health effects of video display terminals (VDTs) with particular emphasis given to issues raised by VDT users. Topics covered include radiation emissions, health concerns, radiation surveys, occupational radiation exposure standards, and long-term risks. (17 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Display Systems, Electronic Equipment, Hazardous Materials, Human Factors Engineering
Guerrero, Peter F. – 2000
In response to a Congressional request, the General Accounting Office examined issues related to pesticide safety for children in agricultural settings. Pesticides can cause acute, chronic, or delayed-onset illnesses. Children may be exposed to pesticides through farm work; eating pesticide-treated foods; or contact with drift from pesticide…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Health, Child Labor, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedSingleton, W. T. – International Labour Review, 1983
This article compares the occupational safety and health systems of Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, looking at the origins of their legislation and its effects on occupational safety and health, with a view to determining what lessons may emerge, particularly for developing countries. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Environmental Standards, Health Programs
Lombardi, Don – School Business Affairs, 1991
Studies suggest that computer work stations may induce high levels of physical and psychological stress. Advises school districts to take a proactive stance on ergonomics. Cites laws and pending litigation regulating computer use in the workspace and offers guidelines for computer users. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Factors Engineering
Peer reviewedBarrett, Nancy J. – OAH Magazine of History, 1999
Offers a lesson plan that addresses the working conditions endured by women in the Progressive Era and their struggles for womens rights in the workplace. Strives to demonstrate the similarities between the plights of the Progressive Era women to those of women workers in the 1990s. (CMK)
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Females, Feminism, Industry
Tucker, Lee – 2000
Agricultural work is the most hazardous and grueling area of employment open to U.S. children and is also the least protected. Adolescent farmworkers labor under more dangerous conditions than their peers working in nonagricultural settings and also face persistent wage exploitation and fraud. These adolescent workers are protected less under U.S.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Child Health
Cooper, Marc – Nation, 1997
Meatpacking communities in America's Midwest have become home to thousands of impoverished immigrant workers from Mexico, Central America, and Laos, recruited to work in poor and dangerous working conditions for low wages and no benefits. Suggests that public policy needs to address protecting and improving the situation of immigrant workers. (LP)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Workers, Immigrants, Labor Standards
Davis, Shelley – 1997
An estimated 200,000-800,000 children and adolescents work in the United States as migrant agricultural laborers, either alone or with their families. This digest describes the statutory and economic factors contributing to the presence of children in the fields and the impact of this labor on their health and educational progress. The Fair Labor…
Descriptors: Accidents, Agricultural Laborers, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Roeher Inst., North York (Ontario). – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that sought to identify the particular problems Canadian parents caring for children with disabilities face in trying to make the transition to work in terms of their child care arrangements and employment-related factors, and best practices in child care arrangements and employment accommodations.…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents
Barger, Ken; Reza, Ernesto – 1984
In 1983, personal interviews with 38 adult, Mexican American, migrant farmworker, male heads of households working tomato crops in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan revealed living and working conditions and views and involvement regarding labor rights and the farmworker movement among the estimated 65,000 Midwestern migrant farmworkers. Interview data…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Farm Labor, Labor Conditions
Roeher Inst., North York (Ontario). – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that sought to identify the particular problems Canadian parents caring for children with disabilities face in trying to make the transition to work in terms of their child care arrangements and employment-related factors, and best practices in child care arrangements and employment accommodations.…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents
Mogensen, Vernon L. – 1996
This book explains how the use of video display terminals (VDTs) has been detrimental to women in the work force and has led to widespread health and safety problems. Chapter 1 discusses the development and scope of occupational illnesses associated with VDT work. Chapter 2 analyzes the power relationship between labor and capital in the office…
Descriptors: Cancer, Employed Women, Federal Government, Government Role
Houseman, Susan N. – 2001
Workers in flexible staffing arrangementsincluding temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract workersare much less likely than regular, direct-hire employees to be covered by laws mandating or regulating workplace benefits. They are also much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits on the job.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC. – 1996
This document consists of three separate booklets designed to educate the public and users about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The 54-page "All about OSHA" is intended to provide a nonexhaustive overview of OSHA services. The following topics are discussed: the need for occupational safety and health…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Role, Compliance (Legal), Employer Employee Relationship
