These days, we engineers are in a bad way. Some 80,000 (about 6% of all engineers) are underemployed or out of work, while the others, putting up with a dull job, are taking shorter work weeks, or daily dreading being laid off. The professional societies, out of one side of their mouths, ask the government for relief...
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The details are now well known to everyone. Government military spending is large enough so that variations in it can provide economic stabalization. (Increases in government spending usually come conveniently enough in the areas of arms, while cutbacks are made in the less profitable realm of non-destructive items...
Regional Science is the name used to describe the practice and abstract musings of those scientists and technologists who are concerned with the technical problems of regional development and the interrelationship between regions. Of course many who work in the field recognize that the problems are not really all...
Unemployment in the United States rose to 5.5% in September of this year and there is every indication that it will increase further. The last time a similiar level of unemployment prevailed was in the early sixties before the escalation of the Vietnam War. However, in today's situation a new dimension has been added...
The Defense Facilities and Industrial Securities Act of 1970 now pending in the Senate would require security clearance for workers in, “any plant, factory, industry, public utility, mine, laboratory, educational institution, research organization, railroad, airport, pier, waterfront installation, canal, dani bridge...
It is important to note that sexual oppression is both pervasive and institutionalized; within the scientific community it takes many forms. Educational tracking by sex from elementary school on channels women into subordinate roles and stereotypes. While men are trained to develop 'logical' patterns of thought, women...