Unionism among management personnel, like certain farm commodity prices, tends to reach but not to exceed the level supported by the government. In the several years before 1947 trade union efforts by foremen attracted widespread attention. With the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act and its...

Reply to Rothbaum and Ross, in "Two Views on Wage Differences," in this issue.

Deals with a study that explored whether the wage bargaining efforts of unions of production workers influence the salary levels of nonproduction workers. Model to identify the earnings levels of production and nonproduction workers; Results and discussion; Conclusion. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Focuses on the changes in the quality of labor force. Growth in the focus toward the evaluation of labor force quality; Description of the quality index; Application of the index. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

The failure of labor markets to produce determinate rates for each occupation as postulated by traditional theory may be explained, according to this article, in large part by the nature of the hiring process. Diversity of wages among semiskilled workers, who usually are hired on a...