Re: Union education in economics

2002-05-03 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Jurriaan I can't locate any official stats on union membership in New Zealand. The abstract below gives some idea. It looks like the full paper is not on the internet, but you can order it from the Industrial Relations Centre at Victoria University - see http://sbpm.fca.vuw.ac.nz/vuw/content/disp

Union education in economics

2002-05-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Bill, Do you have available the current percentage of unionised workers in the total number of wage and salary earners in New Zealand ? In 1985 it stood at about 44 percent and in 1995 it was about 23 percent. I just want to know if this decline has continued (at least in some countries the de

RE: Union education in economics

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Rosenberg
2 May 2002 9:57 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:25601] Union education in economics > > Bill, > > You could check out a Phd Thesis completed at Canterbury University by G. > R. Pearce with help from myself. It's called "Where is New Zealand Going > ?&

Union education in economics

2002-05-01 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Bill, You could check out a Phd Thesis completed at Canterbury University by G. R. Pearce with help from myself. It's called "Where is New Zealand Going ?" (1986), available from UCL, and includes a data set for basic Marxian variables (s/v, c/v, s/c+v and various derivatives) applying to NZ

Request: Union education in economics

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Hi I've been asked by a union to spend a day with its senior delegates to give them some basic economics (what's capitalism, how does it work/fail to work, the financial system, surplus value); a background to the New Zealand economy; and the impact of globalisation. I can get together material o