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Gillis, William R.; Shaffer, Ron E. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1987
Written to help communities boost their economies by attracting new industries best suited for local workers, this guide discusses the kinds of employees used by different kinds of industry and highlights specific industry hiring preferences, attributes of various industries, and worker characteristics. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Business, Community Development, Community Planning, Economic Development
Download full textPepin, Pierre-Yves – 1968
Five areas in the Maritime Provinces of Canada were subjected to intensive geographical, economic, and sociological surveys in an attempt to determine and define poverty illustratively rather than statistically. Information was obtained by in-residence researchers on bio-physical setting, settlement, population, labor and economic activity,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Community Surveys, Economic Development, Employment Potential
Smith, Eldon D.; Anschel, Kurt R. – 1987
This paper questions whether public concerns about educational quality and slow economic development in Appalachia are being addressed adequately and suggests that the problem of lagging educational performance is rooted in the social and economic environment within which schools operate. Recent high unemployment in south central Kentucky and its…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Change, Community Development, Economic Development
Norton, John – 1980
The first part of the case study describes the establishment of kilns to produce fired bricks in the Luristan region of Iran and utilization of local skills and resources to meet local needs. The emphasis is on providing job opportunities to supplement the existing agricultural economic base and on supporting the local building industry, both of…
Descriptors: Brick Industry, Building Trades, Change Strategies, Community Support
Washington State Dept. of Employment Security, Olympia. – 1973
The annual report of the Rural Manpower Program, Employment Service Division, contains narrative and statistical data that describe important developments in Washington State during 1973. In terms of man-months of labor, rural counties provided less than 25% of the total seasonal farm employment in 1973, while urban Yakima County alone provided…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Community Development, Economic Development
Federal Ministry of Education, Islamabad (Pakistan). – 1978
In Pakistan, academic education is a luxury. Instead, education must be geared to production, solving practical problems, and promoting national development. Since 1951, Pakistan has attempted to bring work and education together and to throw off the structural and attitudinal restrictions of a foreign educational system which strangled tradition,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Affective Objectives, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations
