Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs the government $30,000 to create a $10,000 job. The best solution is to get involved in the private sector," he said...
...investors have helped South Africa develop important basic industry. In the rest of Africa, they concentrate on primary production and last-stage processing, with few linkages or benefits for the rest of the economy. As U.S. firms contribute to an advanced technological foundation for the South African industrial sector, they become more and more involved in South Africa's structure of exploitation. Eight of the top ten U.S. firms have major investments in South Africa...
There are indications of trouble in the public sector. Financially strapped states and municipalities must grapple with increasingly militant unions, and experts fear tough negotiations and possible strikes. Secretary of Labor Usery, concerned that the sophisticated skills of contract bargaining are rare in the public sector, calls it a "tinderbox...
...interesting to consider the factors which contribute to the union's convenient if somewhat simplistic analysis. District 65 of the DWA has been organizing the Med area since October, 1974, and it now claims as members the majority of nearly 800 clerical and technical employees in that sector. The District 65 petition to hold a union-forming election in the Med area, opposed from the outset by the University, was either tossed around like a hot potato or otherwise ignored for nearly a year by Fuchs and by the Washington Board. Washington wouldn't hear the case--since...
THESE PROPOSALS follow from the assumption that the Puerto Rican government is responsible for creating jobs, either by attracting investment or expanding its own hiring. Because the business sector is mostly American and therefore unresponsive to local pressures demanding more employment, the government has been obliged to take aggressive action in search of new employers. Yet even in the boom years, industrialization did not provide enough employment. The government used jobs as patronage and as a substitute for promoting private employment, as long as its credit lasted; approximately 25% of the labor force works in the public sector. The failure...