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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED184434 AUTHOR: Kerr, Clark, Ed.; Rosow, Jerome M., Ed.
TITLE: Work in America: The Decade Ahead. Work in America
Institute Series.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 288 p.
AVAILABILITY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 135 West 50th
Street, New York, NY 10020 ($15.95)
ABSTRACT: The results of three national symposia held in
New York, Chicago, and San Francisco by the Work in America
Institute involving more than 300 leaders from industry,
qovernment, labor, communications, and education are
summarized in this volume dealing with the work force of
the future and the emerging work environment. Changes
reported that affect work in America include affirmative
action legislation, a declining birth rate,
retirement-at-70 laws, and early retirement options. Issues
responding to the changes discussed are shorter or
compressed work weeks, work at-home jobs (with your own
computer terminal), flexitime, employee civil rights, and
worker participation in management. Focus is on five
fundamental issues: (1) the quality of working life; (2)
productivity, emphasizing the human factors in the
productivity equation; (3) education and the world of work;
(4) employee-management cooperation; and (5) national labor
force policy, examining policies of the United States and
other industrialized nations as they affect the quality of
working life. An index is provided.
(LC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adults-; Employment-Patterns; Employment
Projections; Labor-Economics; Labor-Needs; Postsecondary
Education; Productivity-; Retirement-; Social-Influences;
Unemployment-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Education-Work-Relationship; *Futures-of
Society; *Labor-Market; *Quality-of-Life
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