Examines the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite & Paper Mill Workers' shop steward-training program in the United States. Overview of shop steward training in the pulp and paper industry; Objectives of the program; Use of the line organization in the program; Components of the program....

Inefficiencies in agriculture in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union contributed to the financial collapse of the socialist system. Yet during the transition, agricultural production has declined. Low profits, high real interest rates, slow progress in reforms in some countries, and...

In this study we ask whether, and in what ways, the impact of social cleavages in American politics changed in the unusual 1996 presidential election. Has the pattern of alignment of key social groups remained constant in the 1990s? Have over-time trends observed in earlier years (and analyzed...

Although it has long been known that parental socioeconomic status correlates strongly with various measures of child and adult achievement, the causal roleplayed by income remains controversial. Important unanswered questions include: 1) the role of the timing of economic deprivation during...

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship. Although economists were...