American Workers (american + worker)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


An African -American Worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: Race and the Soviet Experiment in International Perspective1

THE HISTORIAN, Issue 1 2009
Barbara Keys
First page of article [source]


The Wage Structure of Latino-Origin Groups across Generations

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2006
RICHARD FRY
We analyzed in detail the wages of Latinos of Mexican origin, Central/South Americans, and Puerto Ricans. The wage structure facing second and third- and higher-generation Latinos is very similar to the wage structure of third- and higher-generation White workers. Unlike African American workers, more than half of the native Latino/White wage gap can be accounted for by the lower educational attainment and potential experience of native Latino workers. [source]


Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in a Sample of Nurses

JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2005
Stephen A. Sparks
It is surprising that there are no published studies exploring job satisfaction and subjective well-being (SWB) in nurses given the current shortage (Clark & Clark, 2002). For the present study, 152 nurses completed measures of job satisfaction, SWB, and social desirability. The Dimensions of Satisfaction scale was designed for this study and demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity. Results indicated that the most important aspect to nurses' job satisfaction is pay, followed by staffing and benefits. When entering the field, nurses most valued pay, followed by personal fulfillment and respect. A majority of the sample (59%) indicated satisfaction with their job, but this is well below the national average for American workers (85%; National Opinion Research Center, 2000). Nurses indicated higher SWB than the general population (Myers & Diener, 1996). However, the correlation between job satisfaction and SWB was lower than that of the general population (Tail, Padgett, & Baldwin, 1989). [source]


Generational differences: revisiting generational work values for the new millennium

JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 4 2002
Karen Wey Smola
As we enter the new millennium and face the entrance of another generation of workers into the changing world of work, managers are encouraged to deal with the generational differences that appear to exist among workers. This paper revisits the issue of generational differences and the causes of those differences. Data were obtained from more than 350 individuals across the country who responded to a request to complete a survey. Current generational differences in worker values are analysed and the results are compared to a similar study conducted in 1974. Results suggest that generational work values do differ. To a lesser degree, the results suggest that work values also change as workers grow older. Finally, the results indicate an increasing desire among American workers to balance work and personal goals. This change in attitude was reflected even within the same cohort group. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


"What's on the worker's mind": Class passing and the study of the industrial workplace in the 1920s

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2003
Mark Pittenger Professor of History
Posing, living, and laboring as American workers, several 1920s reformist labor investigators sought to develop an alternative to Frederick Taylor's famous characterization of a typical manual laborer as mentally akin to an ox. Through their experiences as workers, they believed that they gained real if limited access to working-class pyschology. Accordingly, they presented views of the worker's mind that significantly loosened the strictures of hereditarian and, expecially in the case of foreign-born workers, scientific racist thought. But their efforts were shaped by their own backgrounds and biases, and by those of the academic authorities upon whose work they built, and were also mediated through the complexities of their efforts to pass across the class line. Their work finally lent itself less to the purposes of industrial democracy and reform than to those of the rising 1920s schools of industrial psychology, industrial sociology, and personnel relations. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]