Lists reasons for increasing emphasis on conservation and renewable energy sources and considers the role of vocational education in motivating workers to change energy use attitudes and behaviors. (SK)

Presents an overview of developments in the Quality of Working Life field and some links between this movement and adult education. Discusses worker participation as a strategy for mass adult education. (SK)

Defines the role which training can play in bringing about a real, profound, and lasting improvement in working conditions and environment and determines what goals the activities should achieve. (CT)

Looks at attitudes toward work in the People's Republic of China, including that the nature of work should be varied and meaningful; there should be worker control over the pace of work and working conditions and sufficient security, pay, and status; and there should be working group cohesiveness and group goals. (CT)

Presents an account of the proceedings at the conference, including recommendations, discussions, examination of agenda items, adoption of resolutions, and debate on the report of the Director-General as well as his reply. (CT)

Examines the age distribution of injured workers relative to their exposure by industry and occupation; and looks at injury characteristics and costs associated with the age of the injured worker. Data indicate that occupational injuries occur at a lower rate to older workers than to younger ones. (CT)

Discusses federal regulation of industry in general and the history and work of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in particular. (IRT)

Trends in employment, occupations, output, and input provide evidence that firms increased their use of contract and contingent labor. Further research is needed to explore the causal factors behind the shift toward market-mediated work arrangements. (JOW)

Discusses the hazards in forest work and the steps that the International Labour Office is taking to overcome them. (JOW)

Based on data from the supplement to the February 1995 Current Population Survey, contingent workers were more likely to be female, black, young, enrolled in school, and employed in services and construction industries than were noncontingent workers. More than 10% were teachers. (Author)

Reviews some of the conceptualizations of workplace learning and its cognitive bases and examines workplaces as learning environments. Also considers the special challenges involved in the flexible delivery of training to workplaces. (SLD)

Presents an overview of job burnout, discusses the pioneering research and current theories of the burnout construct, along with the history of the main burnout assessment--the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Concludes that an understanding of the interaction between employee and his or her environment is critical for grasping the origin of burnout.…

Discusses results of a survey that was conducted to understand and study the barriers to distance training and education. Considered work place; job function; type of delivery system used; individual expertise regarding distance education; the stage of the respondent's organization; and the subject area in which the respondent primarily worked.…

Focuses on relations between applied discourse analysts and professional colleagues in the field of medicine. Examines how discourse-based research findings were taken up and responded to by the medical professions. (Author/VWL)

Examines the predictors of individuals' workplace sexual orientation disclosure status in 118 couples. Findings indicated that, at the individual level, having a workplace nondiscrimination policy and less internalized homophobia were positively associated with the extent to which an individual was out at work. The implications for counseling and…