The authors suggest that, in the future, career educators should attempt to discover to what extent career education enhances the principle of maximum possibilities in occupations; how it can obliterate the distinction between work and leisure; and how it can be more concerned with human services. (Author/JN)

An update on training the workforce of a nation propelled into the 20th Century by war; emphasis on the problems, primarily cultural and linguistic, faced by U.S. instructors. (Editor/SP)

A relationship was found to exist between occupational level and planned determinants of occupational entry. Results suggest that vocational counseling should place greater emphasis on unplanned situational events. (Author)

Analyzes factors associated with entry to skilled trades through the Australian apprenticeship system. Data were collected from nearly 2,500 17-year-old males. Results indicate that young males whose fathers were tradesmen are more likely to participate in apprenticeship training. Other findings are reported and discussed. (JN)

Describes some characteristics of women interested in skilled trades careers. Demonstrates counselor attitudes and responses in counseling women who are interested in nontraditional careers, including the direct-discount approach, the rational protective approach, the subversive-support approach, and the expansive-facilitating approach. (RC)

Vocational and technical schools are now preparing many women for trade and craft work. Vocational educators should be aware of myths that have persisted concerning women in the work force and also of legal and economic implications of equal employment opportunity for women. (JOW)

Develops a theory to integrate the effects of three factors--the relative supply elasticities of skilled and unskilled labor, adjustments in skilled labor hiring standards, and the presence of fixed employment costs for skilled labor--on the response of skill differentials to demand variation. (Editor/LAS)

Shows that skill differential in manufacturing, when measured on a national level, has remained surprisingly stable over the 1952-73 period, in spite of its history of narrowing throughout the first half of the century and severe pressures of inflation since 1965. (Editor/LAS)

Explains strengths and weaknesses of work force projection and forecasting approaches for determining supply and demand of skilled workers. Discusses how and why job training providers should use labor market analysis as the basis for planning relevant programs. (SK)

U.S. business has spent very little on educating workers and pay a far smaller proportion of local taxes than formerly. Corporations are increasingly finding skilled, less expensive workers abroad or through immigration. Global capital cannot create high-wage jobs in the United States without skilled workers and a first-class infrastructure. (SK)

Explores educational structure shifts in Netherlands banking caused by technological developments. A cross-section analysis of 100 local banks shows that diffusion of office automation has positively affected the skill level and share of vocationally skilled workers. Automated banks also use recruitment policies to adjust skill structure more…

Discusses the limitations of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, and reviews the national and regional impact of immigration on the labor market and taxes and public services, and successful immigrant assimilation. Argues for reform of immigration policy based on a profamily, progrowth policy. (FMW)

As the shortage of skilled workers reached crisis proportions in the metalworking trades, employers must scramble to beef up internal training efforts and to rebuild a strained relationship with vocational schools. (Author)

Canada has a demonstrable shortage of skilled workers and professionals that will become more acute as the work force ages. Canadians stubbornly refuse to replicate themselves by having more children. The country is at risk of finding itself short not only of physicians and math teachers but also of enough working-age, tax-paying citizens to…