RSVP, Retired Senior Volunteer Program : a part of ACTION.

Mode of access: Internet.

Professional course for service among immigrants; prepared for the use of colleges and universities, schools of civics and philanthropy, to fit men and women for service among immigrants. Adapted also for study by clubs, institutions and conferences of workers of social organizations.

On cover: Prepared for the United States Bureau of Education by the Committee for Immigrants in America.

The temperance movement and its workers. A record of social, moral, religious, and political progress.

Mode of access: Internet.

Better case file monitoring of the workers' compensation offset provision by the Social Security Administration could save millions /

"September 30, 1983."

Occupational characteristics of disabled workers, 1975-1976 : analysis of social security disability benefit allowances to workers during 1975-1976 /

Bibliography: p. 149-150.

Trends in mortality differentials and life expectancy for male social security-covered workers, by average relative earnings /

"SSA publication no. 13-11712"--Cover p. [4].

Survey of occupational mobility, conducted by the cooperating university research centers and the Social Science Research Council for the U. S. Department of the Air Force and the U. S. Bureau of the Census. Voluntary shifts of St. Paul workers 1940-44 and 1945-50.

Mimeographed.

Earnings and employment data for wage and salary workers covered under social security by state and county /

Description based on: 1984.

Earnings and employment data for workers covered under social security, by state and county /

Mode of access: Internet.

National Study of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Workers, Work, and Organizational Contexts; Working Papers

Mode of access: Internet.

The PCF and the question of intellectual workers : the crisis of social ideology

The aim of this thesis is to examine the approach of the Parti Communiste Francais (from 1956 to 1982) to the emergence of new strata of salaried `intellectual workers' (technicians, engineers, low to middle managers in industry and commerce, scientific researchers, teachers etc) parallelled by the gradual diminution of the traditional industrial working class which forms the core of the Party's support base. This examination is carried out in the context of the debate in France (initiated in the 1950s by social theorists of the Left) on the class membership and role of these strata. The reason for the emergence of such a debate is that in a society given to both a rapid evolution of its social structure and an increased polarisation between Left and Right, a precise knowledge of the objective and subjective determinations of new strata would enable parties to the Left to make proper distinctions between potential allies and adversaries. The thesis posits the view that the PCF has failed to make correct distinctions between its potential allies and adversaries and has thus pursued unsuccessful alliance strategies. The thesis contributes towards a scientifically-based understanding of one of the reasons governing the PCF's steady decline since the 1950s.

Senior management leadership, social support, job design and stressor-to-strain relationships in hospital practice

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the quality of senior management leadership on social support and job design, whose main effects on strains, and moderating effects on work stressors-to-strains relationships were assessed. Design/methodology/approach: A survey involving distribution of questionnaires was carried out on a random sample of health care employees in acute hospital practice in the UK. The sample comprised 65,142 respondents. The work stressors tested were quantitative overload and hostile environment, whereas strains were measured through job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Structural equation modelling and moderated regression analyses were used in the analysis. Findings: Quality of senior management leadership explained 75 per cent and 94 per cent of the variance of social support and job design respectively, whereas work stressors explained 51 per cent of the variance of strains. Social support and job design predicted job satisfaction and turnover intentions, as well as moderated significantly the relationships between quantitative workload/hostility and job satisfaction/turnover intentions. Research limitations/implications: The findings are useful to management and to health employees working in acute/specialist hospitals. Further research could be done in other counties to take into account cultural differences and variations in health systems. The limitations included self-reported data and percept-percept bias due to same source data collection. Practical implications: The quality of senior management leaders in hospitals has an impact on the social environment, the support given to health employees, their job design, as well as work stressors and strains perceived. Originality/value: The study argues in favour of effective senior management leadership of hospitals, as well as ensuring adequate support structures and job design. The findings may be useful to health policy makers and human resources managers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Social security status and mortality in Belgian and Spanish male workers

Objective: To assess differences in mortality rates between social security statuses in two independent samples of Belgian and Spanish male workers. Methods: Study of two retrospective cohorts (Belgium, n = 23,607; Spain, n = 44,385) of 50-60 year old male employees with 4 years of follow-up. Mortality rate ratios (MRR) were estimated using Poisson regression models. Results: Mortality for subjects with permanent disability was higher than for the employed, for both Belgium [MRR = 4.56 (95% CI: 2.88-7.21)] and Spain [MRR = 7.15 (95% CI: 5.37-9.51)]. For the unemployed/early retirees, mortality was higher in Spain [MRR = 1.64 (95% CI: 1.24-2.17)] than in Belgium [MRR = 0.88 (95% CI: 0.46-1.71)]. Conclusion: MRR differences between Belgium and Spain for unemployed workers could be partly explained because of differences between the two social security systems. Future studies should further explore mortality differences between countries with different social security systems.