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In this article a profile of the Italian blue-collar worker is presented based on the results of the comparative study and of other research recently undertaken in Italy. The profile will not focus so much on the objective conditions of the Italian blue-collar worker as on his attitudes, feelings, and opinions. The focus will constitute a self-portrait of the Italian blue-collar worker. From this point of view, such impacts of industrialization as the destruction of old trades and the creation of new skills, the rise of new rules governing behavior in the plant and union, and the immediate effects of increasing urbanization will be of secondary interest. Instead, the focus will be on the worker's response to the industrial institutional pattern. The profile of the Italian blue-collar worker presented here is not exhaustive due to space limitations. However, the aspects the author has examined are among the most important. These aspects are family occupational tradition, occupational background before becoming an industrial manufacture worker, responses to the industrial condition, attitudes toward present occupation, and feelings of satisfaction for the tasks required by present job. In examining Italian economic development, there are at least two different types of industrial workers, those in the industrial North, and those in the new industrial islands in the traditional South.

The article presents a comparative perspective of the relation between police and political change studied in three nations representing three continents. The nations studied were Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, India and the U.S. In relation to this, the structure of the national system, manner of exercising accountability over the police and professional image are discussed. It is stated that the image of the policeman differs from country to country dramatically. In Great Britain, the image is one of honesty and trustworthiness. In Germany, the policeman is viewed as honest, rigid, and unapproachable. French policemen are distrusted although admired for their efficiency. Italian policemen are disliked, distrusted and avoided. Police authority and political power are generally concentrated at same points in the political system. It is stated that policemen affect political life not only directly through their actions but also by the manner in which they handle their duties. The manner in which police accountability is assured fits national political systems. It is concluded that ideological fashions might be no less destructive than professional ones of serious research into the relation between the police and politics.

The article provides a comparative analysis between the environment and the structure of scrub communities in northern Cyrenaica's limestone plateaux. The three plateaux that are constituted as a result of a system of faults running parallel with the coast are situated as coastal plateau, plateau at about 800 feet altitude, and dissected plateau at about 2300 feet altitude. Compared to the coastal regions, the upper plateaux receive a higher rainfall with lower temperatures and humidity. The disappearance of the maritime element from the vegetation and the development of batha scrub were traced by a line-transecting from the sea to the top of the first escarpment slope. It infers that the redevelopment of a stable soil and vegetation lies upon the protection of the natural communities.