I forwarded this post to "skeptic", here are some
responses.
Eva
The Textbook League wrote:
> The APS definition:
>
> > Science is the systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the
> > world and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable
> > laws and theories.
> >
> > The
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:51:54 +1300
From: janice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "The Gathering World Slump and the Battle Over Capital Controls:"
'The Gathering World Slump and the Battle Over Capital Controls
"The policy backlash is the most serious challenge yet to the
The (CapeBreton) Summertime Review Calls it Quits after 15 Years:
I think the story is that they got tired of the unending round of grant
hustling...
With a "home" CB population of 165,000 and falling fast, $650 air fares to
Halifax, and a local tourist season of about 8 weeks there isn't much
How any of the below is linked to sustainability??
I thought you mean work that uses mostly sustainable
resourses... as most jobs are superfluous in the
"developed" countries, loads of them belong here...
I'd think the proportion is worse for
underdeveloped countries.
Eva (puzzled as ever)
>
My thoughts are that the concepts of sustainability may also be able to be
applied to the individual in relation to the organization/social
environment.
I am looking specifically in my research of knowledge based
industries (hightech ie. multimedia /software developers) as the context
of work p
I was re-reading Polanyi's THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION, and was struck by the
parallels between the global economic problems a hundred years ago -- which
ultimately led to WW1 & 2 -- and the current economic problems.
Who besides Polanyi is considered an authority on this period?
Jay
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From: deborah middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sustainable work is related to softwork. Softwork is informal work
>practices that occur in informal work settings/environments.
>
>
>Any other suggestions/comments/help is much appreciated.
If you want something really r
deborah middleton wrote:
>
> My thoughts are that the concepts of sustainability may also be able to be
> applied to the individual in relation to the organization/social
> environment.
Perhaps so; but the number of individuals in relation
to the local (& global) environment (includes org./
soci
> So I am trying to make this linkage, redefining sustainability in
> the context of work practice.
good luck!...
If you have some time, would you put it in a language I can
comprehend, prefebly English or Hungarian... thanks,
The one used in your quote must be "environspeak"
where "sustainab
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:16:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Danny Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [bearslist] World Markets Shaken by Brazil Worries
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Cox)
World Markets Shaken by Brazil
I've just seen a report (BBC2 Correspondent) from Pakistan.
Hundreds of women are killed every year ( I missed the figure
but just one regional hospital was getting cca 10 cases a week, of
which one cca survives)
by male relatives who go free or are in prison at most for a
year. Because they d
This interesting article points out, inter alia, how welfare/UI provide
at least a feeble substitute for the erstwhile ability to homestead raw
land as an alternative to selling your life for subsistence. As Henry
George points out, even chattel slaves are often treated better than
wage slaves who
Shouldn't an important part of sustainable work be that it produces
something that people want -- that, indeed, enhances the lives
of those using the output? I'd be inclined to put this very high
on the list. (See my essay on "Human Values in Work" in _The
Changing Nature of Work_, ed. Ackerman
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