This section contains a variety of documents and materials on apprenticeship and industrial training in Great Britain and the United States that was accumulated over three decades, including materials about the system of apprenticeship and industrial training in Great Britain created by the Industrial Training Act of 1964, materials from a three-year grant from the USDOL in the 1970s to create a pilot Manpower Development Service at Utah State University, materials from a 1978 USDOL Manpower Institutional Grant under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and documents, correspondence and papers collected by Prof. Hansen during his three year term as a member of the U.S. Federal Committee on Apprenticeship from 1990 to 1993. Anyone interested in apprenticeship and industrial training in America or Great Britain will find this material of considerable interest and value.

This section also includes materials collected in Great Britain about the operation of "residential colleges"--a unique form of education for working people in that nation.

In 1964, Parliament created a new system of apprenticeship and industrial training in Great Britain by the passage of the Industrial Training Act of 1964. It set up a system to organize and operate Britain's apprenticeship and other forms of industrial training in its major industries, created Industry Training Boards in each industry to direct the process, and established a levy-grant system to finance and improve on the training then available.

In the early 1970s, Dr. Hansen obtained a three-year grant from the USDOL to create a pilot Manpower Development Service at Utah State University to provide diagnostic and other forms of training and technical assistance to small- and medium-size businesses in Utah and the Intermountain region to determine if the human resource and training needs of these enterprises could be improved by such means. At the conclusion of the three-year project a report and recommendations were made to improve the nations jerrybuilt system of industrial training.

In 1978, Dr. Hansen obtained a "Manpower Institutional Grant" from the USDOL under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act for a four-year project to provide technical assistance and training to employment services and other agencies dealing with unemployed and disadvantaged workers in Region VIII of the USDOL--Utah Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. Through this project, a Masters degree in Human Resource Administration was created at USU and short courses and other training projects were developed and conducted throughout Region VIII.

From 1990 to 1993, during his three year term as a member of the U.S. Federal Committee on Apprenticeship, Dr. Hansen collected a number of documents that explain the work of the FCA and reflect the political dynamics between labor and management. The FCA was eliminated after Dr. Hansen's term expired.