The rate of unemployment among engineers concerns engineers themselves, the engineering colleges, industry and the government. If the rate is low and a passing affair, then no action is needed: the situation will correct itself in a short time. If the rate is high and persists over a period of years, then organized...
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Honeywell Information Systems is a branch of Honeywell corporation specializing in the manufacturing computers. In 1968 Honeywell launched a major effort to produce a new line of 'fourth generation' computers, which if successful would constitute a major challenge to IBM. In 1970 Honeywell acquired from the General...
In the following pages we present, for the first time in Science for the People, a forum — a group of articles and commentaries that are directed to the same question. That question is, "What is the class position of technical workers (technicians, computer programmers, scientists, engineers, etc.) and what is their...
Colleen Meier, a founder of Science for the People, part of the Helen Keller Collective, veteran of many actions for peace and against the misuse of science, physiologist and graduate student took her life on August 3rd at the age of 26. The following text was part of a memorial service organized by friends in her...
In a country where over one half of the population are women, why are only 9% of chemists women? Why do women constitute only 4.2% of all physicists and 0.8% of all engineers? Are we dealing here with those mythical natural interests and capabilities of women? Is the reason irrational discrimination, or is it perhaps...
When reaching for a fresh bottle of chemicals on the laboratory shelf, how often do we as chemists think about how the chemicals got there? Who actually made the chemicals? Who put them in the bottle? When we open the bottle and place it under a ventilating hood to avoid breathing the fumes, do we ever ask ourselves...
I've finally gotten around to writing you! This letter is to clear up a couple of technical problems, to communicate the progress of our group, and to raise some questions we'd like to see SESPA groups, and other people discuss in the magazine. Some notes on the progress of our group. We met weekly all summer (5-8 of...
Newspapers and TV throughout the country blazoned reports of "disruption" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) panel entitled "Is there a Generation Gap in Science. " Edward Teller, ''father of the H-bomb" was extensively quoted. What they did not say was that the "gap" at the panel was...
These perversions of science have not occurred without opposition. Several of the early atomic researchers tried unsuccessfully to prevent an A-bomb detonation over humans. In the 1950's, scientific workers and laymen combined in a movement opposed to nuclear weapons tests because of the harmful effects of radioactive...
Woods Hole, Massachusetts is known for its scientific facilities-the Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), and the Fisheries. Every summer these institutes play host to many young people from elementary school pupils to graduate students who study and work at the...