U. S. data on employment have lacked crucial information on the demand for labor. The only available data have been those collected by the National Bureau of Economic Research on help-wanted advertising, and those from the Bureau of Employment Security on job applicants. Recently, however, the...

Studies of collective bargaining in the mass-production industries have given much attention to pattern-setting negotiations, which usually take place at the major levels of management and union government. Far less is known about collective bargaining at the secondary level, despite the large...