Suchergebnisse

Interference of private interests and bureaucracies in the production, distribution, and use of state health information meant to enhance competition and lower costs; Pennsylvania and Colorado.

Examines causes of low employment and earnings of Blacks, especially young Black males, relative to supply and demand; policy implications; US. Discrimination, comparative economic status of various ethnic groups and Blacks, and crime.

Analyzes factors affecting the extent of citizen contact by city council members on matters relating to economic development; based on 1989 survey of 234 council members; US.

Historical analysis of how the US and Great Britain dealt with the threat of nuclear proliferation in Europe; in light of recently declassified US documents.

Labor law reformers must insist on greater protection for US workers who exercise the right to representation, & also begin to address the needs of the new service work force. However, challenges require reformers to develop a more sufficient sense of past & future labor strategies, & a better understanding of the range of representational forms devised by workers before the dominance of New Deal industrial unionism, & of the ways in which contemporary employment relationships are being restructured. The weaknesses of the industrial model, the continuing need for unionism, & the range of historical & contemporary alternatives are considered. M. Maguire

Argues that North Korea's image as an irrational regime accounts for the careful handling by the US of its threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Relates to compliance with IAEA inspections and safeguards.