Review of Workers wanted

Abstract

Reviews the book, "Workers wanted," by E. Wiliam Noland and E. Wight Bakke (see record 1949-06487-000 ). This study of employers' hiring policies, preferences, and practices in New Haven, Connecticut and Charlotte, North Carolina is the third Interim Report issued under the auspices of the Yale Labor and Management Center. The study is based on guided interviews held in 1945 and 1946 with the persons responsible for setting hiring policy and directing hiring practice in 135 companies in New Haven and 105 companies in Charlotte. These companies employed approximately eighty per cent of the industrial labor force and represented all major industries (businesses excluded) in the two cities. Interview data were reduced to 99 tables, and the book is essentially a discussion of these tables. The book is a popularized interim report, makes reference to only three other publications, contains no bibliography, and contains no index. The result is a highly readable report of value to personnel psychologists, sociologists, economists, industrial executives, union leaders, and others interested in employment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)