Re: Unemployment Crisis

1994-04-21 Thread Arbeitslosenselbsthilfe Oldenburg
JOBS CRISIS GROWING, ILO REPORT SAYS WASHINGTON -- Thirty per cent of the world's labour force is either out of work or underemployed -- a global jobs crisis gripping both rich and poor nations, a United Nations agency say. (...) World leaders are to gather in Copenhagen in April, 1995

Objectivity in Textbooks

1994-04-21 Thread Marshall Feldman
The following quote is from Earl Babbie (1992), _The Practice of Social Research_, 6th ed. (Wadsworth), p. 261: A little-known survey was attempted among French workers in 1880. A German political sociologist mailed some 25,000 questionnaires to workers to determine the extent of their

Re: San Francisco Fed

1994-04-21 Thread Jim Devine
On Thu, 21 Apr 1994 11:11:28 -0700 Doug Henwood said: Can a change in Fed policy really do much about structural unemployment in Bed-Stuy or rural Mississippi? I don't think so. Of course, we'd be marginally better off if Parryites weren't running the Fed, but I think it's easy to overestimate

Re: Unemployment Crisis

1994-04-21 Thread D Shniad
Dunno, Hugo. Perhaps you should toss a question about this conference into Pen and see what comes back? Sid Shniad Ulf wanted to know about this Copenhagen meeting in April 1995. I've come across mention of a 'World Social Summit' being organised by the UN in 1995. Is this the same

Test (please disregard)

1994-04-21 Thread Joel M. Grossman
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