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Item is a paper describing and listing the research outputs of the Marginal Work World Research Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University.

Economic segmentation and politics / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 8, Folder 2
File
1985

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes two drafts, one with interfiled notes and annotations; readers' comments; and correspondence.

Employment trends survey

MS-2-681, Box 8, Folder 9
File
[1989?]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Enquete sur l'attitude du travaillant : Projet Morphologique / Institut des Affaires publiques

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 6
Item
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a French-language copy of the questionnaire marked for office use only.

Field work report : Worker Attitude Survey, Morphology Project, Marginal Work World Study / Nancy Tienhaara

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 15
Item
January 1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a revised version of a report by Nancy Tienhaara, Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University.

Follow-up letters to participants in the general segmentation survey

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 8
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

General Segmentation Project worker surveys

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 9
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains blank surveys in English and French.

General Segmentation Survey establishment data

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folders 13 -14
File
[ca. 1980]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains photocopied pages of handwritten notecards containing business and individuals' names, addresses, communication dates and whether surveys were refused or completed.

General Segmentation Survey progress report, notes, mail-out refusals and correspondence regarding methodology

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 11
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

How many segments? / Richard Apostle

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 4
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a manuscript; notes on the impact of weighting on causal analysis; and a dataset printed for Ronald Smith, Institute of Public Affairs.

Income dynamics in the marginal work world / Richard Apostle and Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 6
File
[c. 1981]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a manuscript and a photocopied galley corrections.

In-depth interviews and establishment studies / Richard Apostle and Larry Smith

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 1
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a heavily edited manuscript draft of Morphology Project II of the Marginal Work World Programme.

In-depth interviews and establishment studies, paper no. 2 / Richard Apostle and Larry Smith

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folder 3
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a report on the work done as part of the Morphology Project.

Interviewer assessment for Worker Attitude Survey, Morphology Project

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 7
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a confidential appraisal of the interviewers on the Worker Attitude Survey.

Letter from Richard Apostle to The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology and tables from "Segmentation and Wage Determination"

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 8
File
1968, 1983

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Marginal Work World project reviewed, gets green light / by Roselie Green

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 14
Item
May 5, 1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a photocopied article from University News.

Marginal Work World Research Program

Series
1968-1986

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Series comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle documenting his work in the Marginal Work World Research Program, an interdisciplinary and long-term examination of employment and work settings in the Maritime provinces carried out through the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University. Richard Apostle's research focused on two projects: the General Segmentation Survey, which involved the collection and analysis of private sector employment data across the Maritimes; and the longitudinal Morphology Survey, which sampled low-wage establishments across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and included managerial personnel and employee interviews. Record types include secondary readings and notes; datasets; agreements; recorded interview and transcripts; manuscripts and published papers; meeting records; and correspondence and memoranda.

Marginality, political culture and attitudes towards the centre / Richard Apostle and Paul Pross in collaboration with Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 7
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a paper presented at a conference in Kingston, Ontario, on July 29, 1981, and notes on the comparison of the marginal and central work worlds.

Memorandum, partial application and list of groups supporting the Ad Hoc Committee Concerned with Women and Work

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 9
File
1979 - 1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a memo and project outline written by Martha MacDonald and Alexa McDonough. Also in the file is a list of publications, conference papers, projects, reports and outlines produced by the Marginal Work Worlds Program from September 1975 to September 1980.

Morphology project bibliography

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 12
Item
[ca. 1981]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a bibliography for Richard Apostle's Morphology project.

Morphology Project follow-up

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 6
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes Lars Osberg, "The Aims and Costs of a Follow-up Survey to the General Segmentation Survey or, The Costs and Benefits of Even More Data"; "Morphology Establishment Follow up"; handwritten notes; and a memorandum from Don Clairmont to members of the MWW Research Group with the subject line: "Follow-up Survey (big bang)."

Morphology Project interview transcriptions

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folders 3 and 4
File
1977 - 1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains handwritten interview transcripts or notes.

Morphology Project refusal follow-up correspondence and information sheets

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 5
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Morphology Project sample notes

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 2
File
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Note to interviewers

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 11
Item
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a two-page set of instructions for interviewers of the Worker Attitude Survey.

Notecards with businesses names, addresses, service codes and other data

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 10
File
[1979?]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Notes on an an analysis of variance for regression of political indices on economic segments, class and the sociodemographic variables

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 12
File
1980 - 1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes a manuscript for a final follow-up survey questionnaire and a printed pamphlet-format survey of Trends in the Maritime Economy.

November 1982 list of working papers, conference research reports and publications of the Marginal Work World Research Program

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 13
File
1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes an overview of the survey data within the Social Policy Research Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, and a December 1982 MWW newsletter.

Objective and subjective determinants of job satisfaction / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 8, Folder 4
File
1981, 1983-1984

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also contains notes and a rejection letter from the Industrial & Labor Relations Review.

Of dead ends and futures : a simple model of labour market segmentation / Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 5
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes several pages of notes by Don Clairmont.

Project memos, list of current porjects, meeting minutes and agendas

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 12
File
1977 - 1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a December 1981 list of working papers, conference papers, research reports and publications of the Marginal Work World Research Program; a memorandum regarding computer usage and data storage; and research group meeting agendas, minutes and reports.

Questionnaire : final follow-up survey 1981

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 8
Item
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a blank copy of the questionnaire dealing with employment and related conditions designed as a follow-up survey on those employees interviewed in 1977, 1978 and 1979 for the Work World Project.

Rejected employment trends surveys

MS-2-681, Box 9, Folder 5
File
[1989?]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Report to the Council of Maritime Premiers from the Institute of Public Affairs

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1979-1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also contains other reports and memoranda regarding the general segmentation survey, and a draft letter from Richard Apostle to Kell Antoft regarding the deposit of research data and its potential future use.

Richard Apostle fonds

MS-2-681
Fonds
1966-2006, predominant 1981-2004

Fonds comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his research activities between 1966-2006, which informed their arrangement into the following series: AquaNet (Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture); Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim; Individual Transferable Fish Quotas; Information Services Employment Trends Survey; Marginal Work World Research Program; Public Policing in Nova Scotia; and Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

Record types include manuscripts; published reports, papers and monographs; committee records, including minutes, agendas and reports; surveys; interview transcripts and notes; annual reports; operations manuals; datasets; secondary readings and newspaper clippings.

Apostle, Richard A.

Sampling design notes and related correspondence

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 2
File
1977-1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes Bryn Greer-Wootten, "Work and Workers in a Low-Wage Industry: The Case of the Leather Footwear Industry in Canada"; correspondence regarding sampling small establishments in Nova Scotia by industry; and comments on Richard Apostle's sample design.

Secondary readings about labour market segmentation

MS-2-681, Box 1, Folders 1 - 5
File
1973-1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects.

Secondary readings and notes about labour market segmentation

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folders 1 - 5
File
1970-1983

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects. File includes handwritten notes.

Secondary readings regarding job satisfaction

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 11
File
1977, 1979-1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains photocopied journal article and published reports.

Segmentation and labour force strategies / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 3
File
1984

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a manuscript draft, an annotated page proof, and a page of authors' biographical statements.

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