Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cooperated with others who thought the Army would straighten him out." Slack pointed out that three others from the project are getting along fine in the service. "We found that we have to let the boy make the decision himself," he said. Despite the fact that the boys work continually with expensive equipment at the laboraotory, only one theft has occured on the premises during the three years of the program. Slack feels even this can be attributed to the negligence of the experimenter. "Twenty-five dollars in one-dollar bills was stolen on Ash Wednesday by a subject...
...equaled his success with delinquents. He has even been informed of the possibility of arrest under state pornography laws. This incident occurred after Slack played for a judge and his court psychiatric staff a tape recording in which a youth explained exactly why he had refused to work with police psychiatrists. Slack thought the information might be of value to the authorities. While not accepting the youth's statement as literal truth, Slack believed that it characterized the boy's reactions...
...judge indirectly informed Slack that playing the tape to anyone, even the subject of the recorded interview, might constitute a violation of state law. Since Slack's program derives its chief benefit from allowing the subject to hear and consider what he has said at an earlier date, his work was severely hampered. Piqued by the attitudes of juvenile authorities and exasperated by their generally futile techniques, Slack has compiled "a list of steps to be taken by those who are not interested in reducing adolescent crime." Among the "steps...
Apartheid is "job reservation" which reserves many of the skilled jobs for White workers and determines lower rates of pay for Blacks who do the same work as Whites...
...giddy days, the terrified White authorities suspended the "pass" laws to placate angry African people. Some observers felt that a revolution would succeed. But by force of arms the pass laws were reintroduced; African workers were persuaded to return to work...