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This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European...
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Study comparing trends in job content, career pattern and occupational status of nonmanual workers in the electrical machinery industry, public service and banking in the USA between 1940 and 1970 - discusses working conditions, technological change, labour force participation of woman workers and minority groups, educational level, the role of job satisfaction in labour turnover, trade unionization, etc. Bibliography.
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When employees at firms like Greyhound and Eastern Airlines walk out to protest wage and benefit reductions, they are permanently replaced and their representative labor unions destroyed. Every year, the threat or drama of a high-profile strike - in air traffic control towers, at Amtrak, or at Caterpillar - makes national headlines and, every year, several hundred thousand unrepresented American employees are discharged without good cause. During...
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