Industrialization of the South is bringing thousands of former agricultural workers into the new and expanding factories and fitting them into the regimentation of industrial life. To what extent are southern factories using the personnel practices common in northern plants? This study reports a...

With the severe strain imposed upon the nation's supply of skilled workers by the defense mobilization effort, apprenticeship programs assume a role of critical importance. How effective are such programs in supplying industry with skilled craftsmen? In this study of the apprenticeship system in...

The railroad operating unions have not only remained aloof from the main stream of the American labor movement, but also have maintained among themselves a craft separatism despite close working relationships and many common occupational interests. Nevertheless, there has been almost continuous...

Examines how trade unions in the U.S. glass industry have dealt with the problem of assimilating miscellaneous or unskilled workers. Dilemma faced by the American Flint Glass Workers' Union when it decided to consolidate its skilled and miscellaneous divisions in January 1950; Organization of the...

When workers organize to bargain collectively, there is an expectation that changes will occur in personnel administration; indeed, a major objective of organization commonly is to modify certain personnel practices. However, other factors may also influence personnel policies and practices....