Word: on-the-job
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Sometimes learning more physical blue-collar work can be a way out of the white-collar ghettos. Ann Serrano, 25, was a telephone operator for Pacific Telephone in Inglewood, Calif., a few years ago. Now, after on-the-job training, she has doubled her salary by learning to repair and maintain telephone equipment. "Some men resent it and still don't have confidence in women," she says. "But they will have to recognize that from now on, this is the way it's going...
...years, he noticed that many of the college-trained engineers working for him lacked practical skill; to remedy the situation, in 1920 he became president of Antioch, a small college in Ohio, and set up the now famous curriculum that combines periods of study with periods of on-the-job training...
When Jerry Ford, who was tempered by 25 years on the Hill, is out on the stump, his rhetoric sometimes suggests that he would abolish the entire Government. As head of that Government, he must know, after a year's on-the-job training, that some of his campaign lines are pure baloney. But he cannot cure the congressional hangover. Some of Ford's vetoes, often delivered with simplistic and negative explanations, represent a denial of the legitimate, if costly advances our society has made in the past years. On the other hand, many of the bills that...
Human capital theory asserts that labor is a form of capital whose productive value may be enhanced through such "investments" as increased education, improved health, and on-the-job training...
...included in the law. Then a series of cases brought new life to the once moribund Civil Rights Act of 1866. That statute sweepingly outlaws all manner of racial discrimination-and makes no special exception for job seniority. And, in a major decision, the Supreme Court indicated that on-the-job practices that tend to foster discriminatory patterns can survive only if justified by "business necessity"-a rationale that may well not cover the "last-hired, first-fired" rule...