NEWS AND NOTES.

The article presents updates on labor, economics and industrial relations studies as of July 1954. A number of research projects dealing with industrial and labor relations are described in the Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Small one-industry labor markets, the economic characteristics of the urbanized Negro work force and the measurement of area changes in employment are the focus of research activities in industrial relations at the Washington University. The general categories under which research at the Industrial Relations Center in the University of Chicago, Illinois are listed. Allan M. Cartter of Duke University's Department of Economics and Business Administration is making a study on the "Impact of Industrial Expansion on Southern Wage and Employment Patters."