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Provides guidance for personnel managers on how to comply with the 1990 Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and on how to avoid discrimination charges. Includes the text of the 1991 Regulations for Implementing the Equal Employment Provisions of the ADA.

Comprises nine essays which explore the following aspects of changes in the US labour market: outmigration from inner city areas; export of business services; demographic changes; migrant workers; literacy; ability of the education system to respond to changing skill requirements; the health care sector; and national employment policy.

Monograph on the sociological aspects of woman workers in manual worker employment in the USA - interviews 87 female skilled workers as to their working class background, occupational choice, Motivation, career pattern, human relations problems, job satisfaction, etc., and disusses employment policy implications. References.

Topics include labour-market institutions and unemployment, relative wages and employment, gender pay gap, policy implications and future research directions.

Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life. This volume probes pertinent questions: Why has the overall degree of sex segregation remained stable in this century? What informal barriers keep it in place? How do socialization and educational practices affect career choices and hiring patterns? How do family responsibilities affect women's work attitudes?...

Papers presented at a conference held at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1 and 2, 1979. Includes bibliographies.

Based on survey data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau and related agencies, and on 82 interviews conducted with employers, workers, unions, and other labour organizations during 1987 and 1988. Covers trends from 1969 to 1994.

Essays, evaluations of employment creation and training programmes in the USA - examines trends and objectives of employment policies, 1962 to 1980; evaluates subsidy programmes for the unemployed, young workers and minority groups, the supported-work Experiment for the socially disadvantaged (drug abuses, exoffenders, welfare recipients), public service employment, and direct job creation; considers effect on income distribution and full employment;...

While much social science research has centered on the problems facing black male workers, Latinas and African American Women at Work offers a comprehensive investigation into the eroding progress of these women in the U.S. labor market. The prominent sociologists and economists featured in this volume document how race and gender intersect to disadvantage black and Latina women.