Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
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RMC’s Director and Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince co-authored an article outlining interventions to prevent occupational heat stress in laborers during physically demanding work in high environmental temperatures. The article titled “Workplace Intervention for Heat Stress: Essential Elements of Design, Implementation, and Assessment” was published on March 22, 2022, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJEPH) by MDPI Open Access Journals and can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/7/3779.
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Immigration and Agricultural Labor Policies
(1983-09)Paper prepared for presentation at the National Public Policy Education Conference, Zion, Illinois, September 13, 1983 -
The Texas Citrus Labor Market Demonstration Project
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1981-07)This report reviews the Citrus Labor Market Demonstration Project which was conducted from-1974 to 1977. The project was aimed to upgrade the labor market for farmworkers in the citrus industry of the Lower Rio Grande ... -
Job Development and Placement for the Economically Disadvantaged in the Private Sector
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1981-10)The work conducted for this report was aimed at providing a broader perspective on the demonstration project undertaken by RTP, Inc. and the Arizona Department of Economic Security in Phoenix begun in April 1980. This ... -
An Analysis of Selected Start-up Industry Training Programs as Vehicles for Human Resources Development
(Ray marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1976-12)The "start-up" industry training concept has received considerable attention as a way to better match workers and jobs, to leapfrog'' the industrial development process by attracting higher-wage industry to an area through ... -
The "Start-Up" Industry Training for Rural Development
(1975-12)Prepared for the IRRA 28th Annual Winter Meeting, Dallas December 28-30, 1975; Session V: RURAL LABOR MARKETS This paper is based on a University of Texas project funded by the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. -
The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System: A Study of Attempted Ex Post Facto Development Planning
(1975-06)Prepared for the Seventh meeting of The Task Force on Southern Rural Development Meridian, Mississippi June 20th & 21st, 1975 -
Southern+ Agricultural Facts
(1975-01)This paper was prepared for the Third Meeting of the Task Force on Southern Rural Development held in Montgomery, Alabama, January I0-January 11, 1975. -
Fostering Minority Enterprise in Construction. Final Report
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1975-04)An empirical study of minority business enterprise in construction, the paper is based on interviews with 340 general and specialty contractors (out of 1,275 identified minority contractors)in Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, ... -
The Crop Support Programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or Who Gets the Grain and Who Gets the Chaff
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-04)The picture of agriculture presented by journalism and the mass media to the American public has changed markedly within the first years of the 1970's. The gist has changed from low agricultural commodity prices and expansive ... -
Operation Mainstream in Central and South Texas
(1974)This study is primarily focused on the rural components of Operation Mainstream in central and south Texas. Data were collected directly from the files of the local projects, and interviews were conducted with the staffs ... -
Concerted Services in Training and Education
(1974)Concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) is a small experimental program originally intended to provide for better coordination and utilization of existing occupational education programs in small towns and ... -
Rural Industrialization and Rural Poverty in the South: A Report on Some Literature
(1971)Rural industrialization is a significant topic for several reasons. First, the high level of underemployment in Southern rural areas naturally mises the question, given the drastic decline of agricultural employment, can ... -
Installing the German Apprenticeship System in Austin, Texas
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1995-01)The German apprenticeship system has attracted the attention of American policy makers because it has demonstrated the ability to produce high skills in a majority of German youth while conferring recognition and status ... -
Texas Food Stamp Employment and Training/Jobs Conformance Demonstration in Texas: Baseline Cost Analysis
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1994-10)The Center for the Study of Human Resources (CHR), a research center affiliated with the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of The University of Texas at Austin, is conducting a multi-year evaluation of the Food ... -
Contemporary Bibliography on Seasonal Agricultural Labor 1970-1976
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1977)Contemporary Bibliography on, Hired Agricultural Labor, Litigation and Legislation Affecting Agricultural Labor, Health Care of Agricultural Labor, and Mexican Nationals in the Labor Market. -
The Role of the Labor Market Contractor in the Farm Labor Market of South Texas: The Case of the Citrus Industry
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1976)This report was written as part of The Citrus Labor Market Demonstration Project -
Bibliography: Citrus Labor Market Issues
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-09)Bibliography on Labor and Management -
The Public Employment Program in Texas: An Assessment of the First Year's Operations of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1972-11)An Assessment of the First Year's Operations of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971 in Texas -
Rural Poverty: The Economic Status of the Chicano Population and the Needs of Public Policy for the 1970"s
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1971-02)A prime example of the incongruity between public policy and human needs 1s to be found in the treatment of the Chicano population of rural America. It is this group that is the subject of this paper. -
Chicanos and Rural Poverty: A Continuing Issue for the 1970"s
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1971-05)This study pertains to those people of Mexican descent who reside in five Southwestern states (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California).
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