Suchergebnisse

This study examines the behaviour of newspaper carriers during a strike at the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Times-Leader, a paper published by Capital Cities Communications, Inc. The strike began in October 1978 and continues to the present. The workers have managed to create a commercially viable newspaper, grabbing the larger part of the daily circulation in the region. An important component in the success of the strike was the defection in mass of the carriers from the company and their decision to work for the strikers. The vast majority of these carriers were between the ages of 12 and 18. Our purpose is to examine the dynamics of their mobilization on behalf of the strikers.

This study tests a model for the impact that Ceausescu's pro-natalist policies had on the Romanian fertility rate between 1967 and 1989. Using time-series analysis, the authors' findings show that the Ceausescu regime continually struggled with the Romanian population to increase the national birthrate. As a result of the regime's policies, there was a significant increase in overall fertility between 1967 and 1989, when the Ceausescu regime was overthrown. Reasons are offered as to why Romania pursued such policies and was able to make them work, while other Eastern and Central European regimes proved to be less able to sustain drives to increase national fertility. This article also presents a model of what has happened to the Romanian fertility rate since 1989, showing that there has been a significant decline in fertility in the post-Communist period.