Unhealthy Societies

FYI -- From: Keith Rankin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did you see the Tuesday documentary on TV1 last night? It was called "The Great Leveller" and is based on the book _Unhealthy Societies_ by British economic historian Richard Wilkinson. Wilkinson has shown through

Info on welfare to work

Can you help with leads, info etc? -- From: Deborah Tucker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] My main research work that I'm just starting on, (working under Ian Shirley), both to finish the Masters and possibly for the Ministry of Social Policy, is a comparative study on the

FW: Eu Full Employment Thematic Network

FYI -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The website of the Thematic Network on Full Employment for Europe at www.barkhof.uni-bremen.de/kua/memo/europe/tser/ may be of interest to members of this list. The Network is an international

Business contributions to the community

I am seeking ideas and information I have been making representations to the City Council (Palmerston North, New Zealand) on the need to update their employment and economic development policies, from the general and meaningless to something more specific, along the lines of employers more likely

John Tomlinson's 6th U/E conf paper

FYI The Importance of Trust Paper given at the 6th National Conference on Unemployment, University of Newcastle, 2324 September 1999. John Tomlinson Abstract The major problem facing Australian people without paid employment (or sufficient paid work) is not the absence of work but the absence

re Genuine Progress

FYI You've seen the headlines, "GDP Up 5.4%." Good news, right? Not really. The gross domestic product simply adds up all the money we spend, and calls the results economic growth. Yet for years, economists, policymakers, reporters, and the public have relied on the GDP as a shorthand indicator

re the plight of the middle class

FYI Keith Rankin's Thursday Column Whither the Bourgeoisie? We frequently hear these days about the plight of the middle class, or the middle classes. But who are the middle classes? Are they simply those people (or households?) who earn between the median income and the 90th or 95th percentile?

New Zealand Employment Summit

interested in employment issues at the local level because the forum included the cream of workers in this field in the country. Several groups around the country have been very interested in the Summit, particularly with a view to running one of their own, said Ian Ritchie, one of the organising group

When our working lives end at 45

FYI When our working lives end at 45 DAVID THOMSON looks at trends in age group employment and suggests that people in their later 40s and 50s will soon have to find something else to do. Dialogue, NZ Herald, 5 August 1999   Paid work past about age 45 is vanishing fast. This change of the

Charles Leadbetter

The NS Essay - Towards the knowledge society Markets are too cruel, communities too stifling, third ways too much of a fudge. Charles Leadbeater offers a fourth and better way PictureI will start with myself. I do not work for a company or a university. I am neither a business consultant nor

Jeremy Rifkin - 1-6-99

Work, Social Capital, and the Rebirth of the Civil Society: A Blueprint for a New Third Sector Politics Rapporteur: Mr Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Washington, DC Picture: bouton_Conference.GIF (1078 bytes)Index

FW: DOWN AMONG THE ECONOMISTS

-- FYI From: stu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] DOWN AMONG THE ECONOMISTS by Jonathon Rowe Of the organized belief systems in America today, economics is surely among the strangest - and economists themselves are even stranger. How such agile and ambitious minds could

FW: Irish Workfare

-- From: B Sandford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] FYI ICQ: 20816964 Fax: USA(707)215-6524 *** News via ainriail the Irish Anarchist Bulletin list see http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/inter/email_lists.html

FW: Book on Full Employ UBI now in PUBLIC DOMAIN.

FYI -- From: Dr Gavin Putland[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear Sir/Madam, Please note that my book SIX MONTHS TO FULL EMPLOYMENT, which advocates a universal basic income, is now in the PUBLIC DOMAIN and is available at www.users.bigpond.com/putland . Some more recent

RE: basic income scheme

Have a look at this "A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an unconditional cash payment to individuals sufficient to meet basic needs." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/~ubinz/ also I have developed a model "Widgets in S-Basic" that demonstrates that a "Citizen's Dividend" not only can

Does The Public mean all of us, equally?

Does "The Public" mean all of us, equally? Keith Rankin, 24 January 1999 We have become accustomed to thinking of "the public" as a collective term for all of the people who make up a nation. Furthermore, as members of the public, we all belong equally to that collective entity. Pinning down

FW: CITIZENS' PUBLIC TRUST TREATY

FYI -- From: Caspar Davis[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear Friends, Here is the official release of our CITIZENS' PUBLIC TRUST TREATY. It is being circulated world wide in English, Spanish, and French, for signature. Please circulate it and post it anywhere you have not

Pro-active Money - Flemming Funch

This may be of interest Ian Proactive Money by Flemming Funch, 9 April 95. I was just pondering how the concept of money can make sense at all in an information economy, and I've got some ideas. Before the arrival of agricultural societies money wasn't needed. Hunters and gatherers

FW: Rapid job growth in the not for profit sector

From the Economist The non-profit sector - LOVE OR MONEY FOR economists, the non-profit organisation is something of an evolutionary oddity. Without the forces that drive conventional firms-shareholders, stock options and, of course, profits-it has still managed to thrive in the market

from the Beyond Capitalism Seminar in NZ

Localising capitalism Simon Collins reports from the `Beyond Capitalism' conference From City Voice, Wellington NZ FULLTIME jobs for all who want them, at wages sufficient to sustain a family. Or a "post-job economy" where only a few do fulltime paid work but their income is shared with

Restructurings at Levi's

ICFTU On Line 215/981009/ND Restructurings at Levi's: trade unions want global discussion Brussels, 13 October 1998 (ICFTU on-line): "Levi Strauss is applying a profoundly anti-union strategy. It announces to the world that it is pro-worker, but its real attitude is totally out of

FW - re Long-Term Unemployment Myths

FYI -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Long-Term Unemployment Myths LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT MYTHS A warm welcome for a new paper by Stephen Machin (UCL) and Alan Manning (LSE) `Long-Term Unemployment: Exploding Some Myths',

Two 'poems' you may like to use.

Cecil Rajendra's came from Don Borrie's paper to the Anti-privatisation conference - privatisation by NZ local authorities The second is from a Sustainable America workshop - not sourced. Ian Until they Right the Wrong, I shall sing no Celebratory Song So long as car parks take precedence

Employment Statement by NZ Catholic Bishops

FYI Ian -- From: Louise May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: RE: Employment Statement Some Concerns About Employment A Statement from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference In 1991 when the Employment Contracts Legislation was being promoted, we stated

FW: Call for papers - LEEDS

-- From: C.J. FORDE[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: C.J. FORDE Sent: Thursday, 2 July 1998 05:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Call for papers LEEDS UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL THIRD ANNUAL POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCE 13TH NOVEMBER 1998

Query re Mondragon

Does anyone know of a recent film or video about Mondragon? "The Mondragon Experiment" is too old and too British to be effective for my students. Ric McIntyre Economics and Labor Research University of Rhode Island Kingston RI 02881 I don't know of a recent video or film