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This publication contains the bibliography and appendixes which accompany a study of the role of the Work Incentive Program, particularly its training activities, in adult resocialization (available as VT 020 335 in this issue). Entries in the bibliography are arranged alphabetically by author under these categories: (1) Manpower-Labor Market, (2) Family Economy, Income, and Budgets, (3) Public Welfare Recipients and Programs, (4) Sociological Theory, (5) Family Structure, (6) Economic Deprivation and Poverty Life Styles, and (7) Methodology. The appended materials consist of: (1) an additional discussion of the research design, (2) the items which appeared in the research questionnaires along with the percentage distribution of responses, (3) a paper discussing the importance of religion to the welfare and working mothers in the study, and (4) a paper discussing the personality of the welfare and working mothers. (SB)

In an examination of the role of the Work Incentive (WIN) Program, particularly its training activities, in adult resocialization, data were gathered by questionnaires administered, one year apart, to a panel of husbandless mothers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and a panel of husbandless mothers who had participated in a WIN program and were working in Camden, New Jersey. Some results were: (1) Slogan Terms, such as "welfare community,""economic incentive," and "work versus homemaking," misdirect manpower policy, (2) Money is over-rated as a work incentive, (3) Work versus homemaking may offer a false choice, (2) Manpower policy needs tailoring for women workers, (5) Traditional and modernizing life styles are central determinants of work behavior and family attitudes, (6) Modernizing women are more likely to work and work promotes a modernizing life style, (7) A large family is more of a deterrent to WIN participation than is responsibility for preschool children, (8) WIN trained mothers are more modernized, activistic, and socially mobile than are other low income working mothers, and (9) Social relational more than attitudinal factors underly labor force participation. This report provides the background, methodology, findings, and recommendations for the study. A bibliography and appendixes are available as VT 020 336 in this issue. (SB)

Considers: (1) the organization and development of social scientific knowledge about the environment; (2) the application of that knowledge in forging viable social policy for the environment; and (3) the construction of institutions in which socio-environmental knowledge may be developed and translated into policy. (LK)