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An investigation of the political determinants of the significantly different rates of welfare expenditure characterizing advanced capitalist countries focuses on connections between the organization & mobilization of a key political actor pursuing social wage benefits -- the labor movement -- & different levels across nations of welfare provision, including expenditure on health, social security consumption, & social security transfers. Disaggregated, pooled, time-series data on welfare provision in 15 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development countries, 1974-1988, are used to test the association between more comprehensive welfare state regimes & state structures that facilitate the intervention of organized labor movements in the policy process. 5 Tables, 1 Appendix, 55 References. Adapted from the source document.

Caption title. ; "Contribution from Forest Service." ; Abridged version of Miscellaneous publication no. 218. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's Republic of China, based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots who flew these dangerous missions. In 1952 the number of flights expanded, and the highly classified SENSINT program was born. Soon, American RB-45C, RB-47E/H, RF/100s, and various versions of the RB-57 were in the air on an almost constant basis, providing the president and military leadership with hard facts about enemy capabilities and intentions. Eventually the SENSINT program was replaced by the high-flying U-2 spy plane. The U-2 overflights removed the mysteries of Soviet military power. These flights remained active until 1960 when a U-2 was shot down by Russian missiles, leading to the end of the program. Shortly thereafter planes were replaced by spy satellites. The overflights were so highly classified that no one, planner or participant, was allowed to talk about them--and no one did, until the overflight program and its pictorial record was declassified in the 1990s. Through extensive research of existing literature on the overflights and interviews conducted by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, this book reveals the story of the entire overflight program through the eyes of the pilots and crew who flew the planes. Samuel's account tells the stories of American heroes who risked their lives--and sometimes lost them--to protect their country." -- Provided by publisher

Productivity improvement programs in the public sector have recently become a popular topic of concern among both academics and practitioners. Many methods of productivity enhancement programs have been discussed ranging from the privatization of services to improved management training. This article describes how a behaviorally-based management training program was used to increase employee productivity in a large city department. The results show that nonmonetary rewards can substantially increase employee performance. Group earned time off, individual employee time off, and goal setting and feedback were all effective for improving employee performance. These cost effective techniques saved the city over $80,000 the first year of implementation. The case study is described by the manager who conducted the project.

There has recently been much public and political discussion about the efficiency and effectiveness of productivity programs offered by public sector organizations. One possible solution is to implement positive productivity programs for employees and managers. This article presents a discussion of seven critical questions from both an "outside" productivity consultant's perspective and an "internal" city personnel director's perspective.