IWS Documented News INTERNATIONAL: November 2008

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

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Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 1:28 PM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

[NOTE: The following series is appropriately used for teaching in high schools and colleges; training and development in industry; and for general policy discussions].

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WORKING [profiles of single workers in the global economy]
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/

Working. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It shapes our sense of who we are, and of where we fit in the scheme of things.
Working is also what connects us. Almost everything around us is the product of human labormuch of it performed in faraway places, by people we will never meet.
Each month, WORKING brings us into the life of a single worker in the global economy. Intimate profiles of real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams, and real jobs.

FIDELE MUSAFIRI

MINER FROM CONGO                 $3-3.50/kg of ore
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/miner.html

Your cell phone or your laptop wouldn't work without a mineral called coltan. The Democratic Republic of Congo has about 80 percent of the world's
coltan reserves, and that has spawned a corrupt and violent industry. Military factions vie for control of the mines, earning millions of dollars
while the miners themselves barely scrape by. One of those miners is Fidele Musafiri, a small man with a hammer, a spike, and a dream of striking it
rich.

Past Stories include --

Agus Laodi      PIRATE          $0-$2,000/operation
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/pirate.html

Agus Laodi could barely feed his family with his earnings as a cocoa farmer. So eight years ago, with his wife's blessing, he left his Indonesian village to seek his fortune as a pirate. Now he lives in on an island in the Strait of Malacca, slipping out in the dead of night to rob cargo ships with a machete. Sound romantic? Think again.

* Samanta

Sex Worker
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/samanta.html

* Whyman Richards

Iceberg Wrangler
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/iceberg.html >

* Mohmen

Tannery Worker
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/mohmen.html >
   listen to full story

   * Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen     Movie Director
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   * Hussein Ralib Esfandiari Dhow Captain    $1500-3000/month         Dubai, United Arab Emirates
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/dhow.html>

   * Wahid Khan Habibula        Cargo Agent

$800/month

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/khan.html>

* Chloé Doutre-Roussel Chocolate Taster $2,180/day

Paris, France
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/chloe.html>

* Gordana Jankuloska Cabinet Minister $1,400/month

Macedonia
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/gordana.html >

* Marco Moreno Gonzales Textile Worker $840/month

Lima, Peru
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/marco.html>

* Sam Ahmedu

NBA Scout

$1,458/month

Lagos, Nigeria
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/nbascout.html >

* Romulo Greham

Lobster Diver

$2.64/lobster lb

Mosquito Coast, Honduras
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/lobsterdiving.html >

* Blair Ghent

Industrial Mechanic $6,000/month

Alberta, Canada
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/oilsands.html >

*Chanta Nguon

CEO

$600/month

Cambodia

< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/chanta.html >

* Laowang

Express Mail Driver $238/month

China
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/wang.html>

* Diana Ivanova Dimova Pop Singer

$10/night

Bulgaria
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/dayana.html >

* Tarek Haidar Eskandar Fixer

$20-75/day

Lebanon
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/tarek.html>

* Pedro Córdova

Metal Worker

$540/month

La Oroya, Peru
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/pedrocordova.html >

*Valdet Dule

Minesweeper

$30/day

Kosovo-Albania Border
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/valdetdule.html >

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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:18 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC)

2008 REPORT TO CONGRESS [20 November 2008]
of the
U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
NOVEMBER 2008
http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2008/annual_report_full_08.pdf
[full-text, 405 pages]

Press Release 20 November 2008
U.S. CHINA COMMISSION CITES CHINESE CYBER ATTACKS, AUTHORITARIAN RULE, AND TRADE VIOLATIONS AS IMPEDIMENTS TO U.S. ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS
http://www.uscc.gov/pressreleases/2008/08_11_20pr.php

Year-Long Study Offers 45 Recommendations to Congress

WASHINGTON, DC (November 20, 2008) China relies on heavy-handed government control over its economy to maintain an export advantage over other countries. The result: China has amassed nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange and has increasingly used its hoard to manipulate currency trading and diplomatic relations with other nations. These are among the concusions in the sixth Annual Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. "Rather than use this money for the benefit of its citizensby funding pensions and erecting hospitals and schools, for example--China has been using the funds to seek political and economic influence over other nations," said Larry Wortzel, chairman of the Commission, at the official release of the group's 2008 report to Congress on Thursday.

The bipartisan Commission, established by Congress to analyze the economic and national security relationship of the two nations, made 45 recommendations to Congress for further action. The 393-page report was unanimously approved by the 12 Commissioners. The Commission held eight hearings; travelled to China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan; commissioned original research; and consulted with the U.S. intellegence community.

The report acknowledges some progress by China. Its adherence to non-proliferation agreements has continued to improve. China's involvement in the Six Party Talks assisted the negotiations to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons production capacity. Yet China has stepped up its capacity to penetrate U.S. computer networks to extract sensitive government and private information. Beijing's "continuing arms sales and military support to rogue regimes, namely Sudan, Burma, and Iran, threaten the stability of fragile regions and hinder U.S. and international efforts to address international crises, such as the genocide in Darfur," the report notes.

The report is critical of China's use of prison labor to produce goods for export and of China's refusal, despite promises, to allow inspections of prisons by advancing the specious claim that forced labor constitutes "reeducation" rather than punishment. The Commission also notes that China's government "has created an information control regime intended to regulate nearly every venue that might transmit information to China's citizens: the print and broadcast media, the Internet, popular entertainment, cultural activities, and education."

The Commission warns Congress that fish imported into the U.S. from Chinese fish farms "pose a health risk because of the unsanitary conditions . . . including water polluted by untreated sewage; fish contaminated by bacteria, viruses, and parasites; and fish treated with antibiotics and other veterinary medicines that are banned in the United States as dangerous to human health." The Commission recommends greater powers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The report and its key findings, analysis, and recommendations to Congress are available on the Commission's Web Site, www.uscc.gov.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO

Executive compensation: Trends and policy issues
by Franz Christian Ebert, Raymond Torres and Konstantinos Papadakis.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp19008.pdf
[full-text, 40 pages]

[excerpt]
This paper has been prepared as background to the new Institute's publication entitled
World of Work Report, which this year focuses on the issue of income inequality. The Report
shows that, in the majority of countries, the incomes of richer households have increased relative
to those of their middle- and low-income counterparts.

This can be good for the economy. Indeed, it is crucial to reward work effort, talent and
innovation key engines of economic growth and wealth creation.
However, there are instances where income inequality reaches excessive levels, in that it
erodes social stability. Growing perceptions that income inequalities are too high may weaken
political support for pro-growth policies. Too much income inequality can also be conducive to
unstable economic growth.

The Report examines a number of factors which may be conducive to excessive income
inequality, such as financial globalization and steep increases in executive pay, disconnected
from firm performance. The role of domestic factors is also analyzed, including i) emerging
patterns of employer-employee bargaining; ii) the trend increase in non-standard forms of
employment; and iii) the ability of the tax and transfer systems to redistribute the gains from
economic growth.

This paper reviews research on one of the key Report's topics, namely executive pay, its
linkages with enterprise performance and related policy issues. It is one of the first cross-country
analyses of what has become a controversial topic during the financial crisis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.........................................................................................................................................................v
A. Introduction and main findings .............................................................................................................1
B. How does executive pay compare across countries and how has it changed?.......................................2
1. What is executive pay, how is it measured? ......................................................................................2
2. How does executive pay compare across countries...........................................................................5
3. How has executive pay evolved? ......................................................................................................6
4. To what extent has executive pay responded to performance?........................................................11
C. What explains the development in executive compensation? .............................................................13
1. Theoretical framework ....................................................................................................................13
2. Regulatory Framework of Executive Compensation.......................................................................15
a) International regulation................................................................................................................15
b) National regulation ......................................................................................................................15
3. The role of institutional factors in shaping executive compensation...............................................16
a) The role of directors in determining executive compensation .....................................................16
b) The role of institutional investors................................................................................................17
c) The role of consultancy firms ......................................................................................................17
4. The role of share-based compensation ............................................................................................18
Ongoing policy debates ..............................................................................................................................19
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................19
References .................................................................................................................................................21
Annex: List of companies referred to in the report.....................................................................................26

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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
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Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 8:33 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO
Research Series 117

The promise and perils of participatory policy-making
by Lucio Baccaro and Konstantinos Papadakis.
http://www.ilo.org//public/english/bureau/inst/download/rs117.pdf
[full-text, 77 pages]

[excerpt]
There is increasing interest regarding the involvement of nongovernment
organisations in the provision of social services and
other areas of public policy. It is sometimes argued that this kind of "participatory
governance" would help improve service delivery, because
private, not-for-profit actors represent constituencies which are directly
affected by the issue for which a policy solution is sought. Moreover,
participation of such actors in public policy would strengthen democracy.
For example, organisations representing groups like youth, migrants or
indigenous people would have a stronger influence when directly involved
in policy making, than when they operate indirectly through Parliamentary
processes or tripartite social dialogue. Participatory governance is also
supposed to be more efficient, in that participants can operate on the basis
of arguments, rather than lobbying. And, according to the "deliberation
theory", the best arguments will prevail through this process.

The present volume by Lucio Baccaro and Konstantinos Papadakis
examines evidence on the advantages and limitations of participatory
governance. The study compares theoretical predictions with the experience
of South Africa, where policy-making fora open to civil society were
set up as part of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

The authors find little evidence in support of the efficiency and
democracy gains predicted by deliberation theory. Instead, there would
be a risk that the interests of civil society be captured by the State. This
happens when the government exerts a strong influence over the demands
articulated by civil society organizations, and hence over the outcomes of
the participatory process. As a result, the participatory process might not
represent the interests of its constituencies. The study highlights one
remedy to this problem, namely a credible exit option, and, associated
with it, strong mobilization capacities by civil society groups. It shows
that, in South Africa, only the labour movement and few other groups
possess such an exit option.

These findings point to the continued relevance of traditional civil
society action such as tripartite social dialogue which is based on a
combination of dialogue, bargaining and mobilisation rather than deliberation
capacity. Therefore, according to this study and despite the trend
decline in union affiliation observed in many countries, social dialogue
between government, employers and unions remains relevant for addressing
a wide range of key policy issues.

The study has been presented in several academic and research
events, and has received critical comments, including from the leading
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, one of the main proponents of
deliberation theory.

Table of contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. An Outline of Deliberative Public Administration Theory . . . . . . 5
3. Habermasian Views on Deliberation and Civil Society . . . . . . . . 9
4. The Evolution of Participatory Governance in South Africa . . . . 15
a) Participatory Economic Policy: The Case of NEDLAC . . . . . . 17
b) Participatory Policy-Making and Child Labour . . . . . . . . . . . 26
c) SANAC and the Fight Against HIV-AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5. Building Communicative Power:
A Discussion of Empirical Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6. Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
List of Interviewees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 8:31 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)

THE CHANGING FACE OF MEDICINE: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America [November 2008]
Ann K. Boulis; Jerry A. Jacobs
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5252

$35.00s cloth
2008, 280 pages, 6 x 9, 12 tables, 28 charts/graphs
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4446-3 Quantity

The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing Face of Medicine draws on a wide array of sources, including interviews with women physicians and surveys of medical students and practitioners. The analysis is set in the twin contexts of a rapidly evolving medical system and profound shifts in gender roles in American society.

Throughout the book, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs critically examine common assumptions about women in medicine. For example, they find that women's entry into medicine has less to do with the decline in status of the profession and more to do with changes in women's roles in contemporary society. Women physicians' families are becoming more and more like those of other working women. Still, disparities in terms of specialty, practice ownership, academic rank, and leadership roles endure, and barriers to opportunity persist. Along the way, Boulis and Jacobs address a host of issues, among them dual-physician marriages, specialty choice, time spent with patients, altruism versus materialism, and how physicians combine work and family.

Women's presence in American medicine will continue to grow beyond the 50 percent mark, but the authors question whether this change by itself will make American medicine more caring and more patient centered. The future direction of the profession will depend on whether women doctors will lead the effort to chart a new course for health care delivery in the United States.

Reviews

"I have seen firsthand how one mother struggled with the delicate balance between work and family and now, more than three decades later, I can truly appreciate the obstacles she overcame. Today, I wonder if it will be any better for my two daughters. Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs have written a must-read for any woman considering the medical profession! It will also make men sit up and take notice."Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN

'This well-conceived and soundly organized book makes an important contribution to our understanding of a range of gender aspects of the past, present and future of American medicine. It will be of interest to a wide audience, from social scientists and health policy makers to physicians, medical students, and other health professionals."Mike Saks, University of Lincoln

"In The Changing Face of Medicine, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs draw on a compelling mix of hard data and personal anecdote to provide a clear and comprehensive analysis of how women as physicians shape the practice of medicine, and in turn, how the practice of medicine shapes these women."Katrina S. Firlik, MD, neurosurgeon and author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

"Over the past quarter century medicine has experienced a gender revolution with the number of medical school entrants among young women now nearly equaling that of men. In this impressive and beautifully written book, Ann Boulis and Jerry Jacobs use both quantitative data and rich in-depth interviews to understand the cause of this transformation and to understand how women have changed the way medicine is practiced. As they document the pathways women pursue to become physicians, they challenge the conventional wisdom that gender differences in medicine result from choices of individual women and instead show how gendered institutions channel womenís specialty choices and type of practice. The Changing Face of Medicine is a marvelous contribution to gender studies and medical sociology."Jill Quadagno, author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance.

"This comprehensive and illuminating report on the current status of women physicians and their impact on American medicine will surprise and educate you. Health care teachers, students, and researchers will want to read this book and mine it for important data on gender and medical care in the United States today."Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY, author of Women Physicians: Careers, Status, and Power and Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

"This book is particularly helpful as it seeks to understand the reasons behind the meaning of, and the ultimate outcome of, this feminization of medicine. It provides a rare insight as to the historical and social trends that have led to this change in the face of medicine, and will ultimately lead to the way medical care is delivered in the United States. As a woman chair in a traditionally male dominated specialty, I could easily relate to my own journey and the challenges I now face in helping my chosen specialty grow and adapt."Karin Muraszko, MD, FACS, Chair and Julian T. Hoff Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan

About the Author
Ann K. Boulis is Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Jerry A. Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Revolving Doors and coauthor, most recently, of The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality.

______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 8:19 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

2008 ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS [20 November 2008]
http://survey08.ituc-csi.org/survey.php?mode=pr&IDCont=1&Lang=EN

See Press Release 20 November 2008
http://ituc-csi.org/spip.php?article2539

Trade union rights are universally recognised human rights at work. The two key ILO Conventions 87 and 98 which define and guarantee them have been ratified by 148 and 158 Member States of the ILO, respectively, out of the total of 181 worldwide. They are also codified in a raft of national constitutions and legislation. And yet, as this Survey shows, trade union rights are also subject to massive and often vicious violation. Evidently, ratification is one thing, and application quite another.

This Survey gives an overview of the trade union rights situation in the world in 2007 and of the major violations that took place. In many cases they had fatal consequences. But they also reflect wasted opportunities to promote better labour relations, improve working conditions and productivity and to build or consolidate democratic institutions.

This Survey is also intended as a tool. It illustrates good practice in cases where improvements are recorded. It also contains the full text of ILO core conventions 87 and 98 as well as an overview of ILO decisions on key issues concerning trade union rights, which are often insufficiently known and understood.

The most tragic consequences of anti-union actions are still the alarming numbers of murders, abductions, arrests and imprisonments, as well as acts of discrimination and intimidation against trade unionists, which continued unabated in 2007. The list of worst offending countries in terms of anti-union violence and repression is getting longer rather than shorter. The long-standing notorious cases of Colombia, Burma, Belarus, Sudan, Swaziland and the Philippines have been joined by Zimbabwe, Guinea, Pakistan, Nepal and Honduras, where serious and persistent violations were worse in 2007 than before.

The most horrific record remains the shameful property of Colombia where, in 2007, another 39 trade unionists were murdered in conditions of continued impunity.

In too many countries across the globe, trade unions continue to be banned or their work severely restricted in particular sectors. Public service workers, agricultural workers, health workers, teachers and journalists are amongst the main victims of these situations. Conditions in this regard have worsened in countries like Pakistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru. Moreover, the concept of �essential services� is frequently used and abused by governments to deny the rights to strike, to collective bargaining and even to organise, to categories of workers whose basic trade union rights are recognised under the terms of international conventions. This is the case in countries such as Serbia, Turkey, South Africa, Pakistan, Ghana and Kenya.

Trade union pluralism and workers� rights to set up trade unions of their own free choice are still denied in a number of countries, particularly in Asia (e.g. China, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam) and in the Middle East and the Gulf States (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Yemen).

AND MORE....

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Telephone: (607) 255-2703
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IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

European Commission (EC)

Employment in Europe Report (2008) [18 November 2008]
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=415&furtherNews=yes
or
http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=681&langId=en
[full-text, 292 pages]

This is the 20th annual edition of the Employment in Europe report, which has become one of the main tools of the European Commission in supporting Member States in the analysis, formulation and implementation of their employment policies.

The Employment in Europe report 2008, as in previous years, addresses topics that are high on the European Union's employment policy agenda. It gives a comprehensive overview of the employment situation in the EU, as well as an analysis of key labour market issues, including immigration, post-enlargement intra-EU labour mobility, quality of work and the link between education and employment.

______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 6:26 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

Census

North American Transportation in Figures [19 November 2008]
http://nats.sct.gob.mx/nats/
or
http://nats.sct.gob.mx/nats/sys/index.jsp?i=3 [English]

Known as : NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS DATABASE

This report provides a comprehensive overview of transportation statistics in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Each language edition English, Spanish and French contains more than 30 data tables. Statistics include modes of transportation, fuel consumption, number of passengers, fatalities and more

[excerpt]

Statistics On-Line Database presents information on transportation and transportation-related activities among Canada, the United States and Mexico, both within individual countries and between the countries. This database, presented in French, English, and Spanish is, accessible in table and time series formats, and covers twelve thematic areas, including transportation and the economy, transportation safety, transportation's impact on energy and the environment, passenger and freight activity, and transportation and trade.

This On-Line Database currently contains 31 tables with additions planned for the future, and allows users to obtain both value data in any of the three national currencies and volume data in metric or U.S. measurement units via the time series function. Data in table or time series format can be printed or downloaded for further processing and analysis. For most tables, data are available for 1990, 1995 to 2004. The data will be updated on a regular basis, thus a few tables already contain more recent data.

The On-Line Database updates a subset of tables and figures from the North American Transportation in Figures report published in 2000. The report, also released in French, English and Spanish, includes data for 1990, 1995 and 1996, with value data reported only in current U.S. dollars and all measurement units in metric. To view and download the full report, please consult http://www.bts.gov/programs/international/natf.html.

The On-Line Database and the Figures report are products of the North American Transportation Statistics working group within the North American Transportation Statistics Interchange, a trilateral initiative among the transportation and statistical agencies of Canada, the United States and Mexico. Underway since 1991, the Interchange provides a forum for the exchange of information and for the discussion of topics and issues related to transportation statistics among the participating countries. The last Interchange meeting was held during June 2008 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. The next Interchange meeting is scheduled for the summer of 2009 in Washington, D.C.

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****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:52 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

OECD

See the country notes for details about the OECD's policy recommendations.
Denmark
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/36/41695696.pdf
Finland
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/34/41695739.pdf
Ireland
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/32/41696306.pdf
Netherlands
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/31/41696331.pdf

OECD says governments must continue reforms of disability systems [20 November 2008]
http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,3343,en_2649_34487_41689835_1_1_1_1,00.html

20/11/2008 - OECD governments should continue reforming their sickness and disability systems and help people with health problems to retain their jobs or find new ones, according to a new OECD report.

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol.3) Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands notes that across OECD countries governments are spending twice as much on illness and disability as on unemployment benefit: as much as 3% of GDP in Denmark and Finland and over 4% in the Netherlands, compared to an OECD average of 2% and 1.5% in Ireland.

Helping people with health problems stay in or return to work would increase overall employment rates and reduce public spending, the report notes, and it would raise the incomes of those people who can and often want to work.

In the current economic downturn, there is a risk that some countries may be tempted to use sickness and disability schemes to cushion job losses. This would be a big, costly long-term mistake given that the vast majority of people who are put on disability benefits never work again.

Denmark and the Netherlands have seen rapid increases in the number of young people claiming disability benefits, while Ireland is facing a rapid increase in the use of long-term sickness and disability schemes, especially for people over 50. Similarly, in Finland disability benefits are being mainly used as a substitute for early retirement, with 70% of all new recipients being older than 50.

In all four countries, new claimants increasingly suffer from mental-health conditions. Finland reports very high rates of unemployment for people with disability, while Ireland has very low and falling employment rates for this group. The latter is also true for the Netherlands, despite the recent success of far-reaching reform in reducing the flow into disability benefits. In Denmark, despite a series of benefit reforms, dependence on health-related benefits has increased.

What should countries do? Improving the financial incentives for public authorities, such as benefit offices, to be more pro-active in helping people off benefit and back to work would help. Making employers responsible for paying more towards a worker's sickness or disability benefit, for example, would also encourage firms to try to retain workers.

Denmark and the Netherlands have also streamlined the roles and responsibilities of their main public agencies to create a one-stop-shop service for people on sickness or disability benefit. This has made the benefit and employment support system simpler and more transparent and improved co-operation and co-ordination. Finland and Ireland should follow their lead.

Targeting supports more effectively is vital, such as making sure that caseworkers have the time to deal with every client on an individual basis. Getting the balance right between size and degree of targeting is also important. The highly focused wage subsidy scheme in Finland is effective but only in helping a few people, whereas Denmark's heavily and permanently subsidised flex-job scheme employs 5% of the labour force but is expensive and could be improved.

See the country notes on < http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/36/41695696.pdf> Denmark, < http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/34/41695739.pdf> Finland, < http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/32/41696306.pdf> Ireland and the < http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/31/41696331.pdf> Netherlands for details about the OECD's policy recommendations. This is the 3rd volume in the Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers series. Volume 1 released in 2006 covered Norway, Poland and Switzerland; Volume 2 released in 2007 covered Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom.

______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.

****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:40 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

Global Union Research Network
c/o ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities
Route des Morillons 4,
CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 799 74 48
Fax: +41 22 799 65 70
researchnet@ilo.org

GLOBAL UNION RESEARCH NETWORK (GURN)
http://www.gurn.info/en

18.11.08: New GURN Web
http://www.gurn.info/en/18-11-08-new-web-site

The Global Union Research Network (GURN) launched its new dynamic web site on 18th November 2008.

After four years of existence the GURN is now proud to present a more user-friendly and attractive web site. Users will find it much easier to navigate and search for documents and information on the many topics covered by the GURN.

Also new is the topic on Public-Private Partnership, which allows us able to provide information on eleven important research topics.

   * Corporate Governance
   * Economic Alternatives and Poverty Eradication
   * Global Trade Union Strategies (Union Renewal)
   * Health Politics and Trade Unions
   * Migration
   * OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
   * Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) & International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
   * Public-Private Partnerships
   * Sustainable Development
   * Trade
   * Wages and Collective Bargaining

The new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) page is created to shed light on the issues and concerns related to PPPs in different countries. Multi-stakeholder partnerships, which are referred in the literature as PPPs, are treated separately. The webpage, a combination of papers and websites that provide useful information, analyses and current debates on PPPs, aims at helping the teachers unions and researchers gain critical understanding of PPPs towards a more informed and strategic response to the issue. Other public services unions may find the webpage relevant for their work.

If you know about documents and information relevant to the GURN topics please do not hesitate to contact the relevant topic coordinators directly or to the overall network coordinator. We also appreciate your general feed-back and comments.

AND MORE....
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****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 7:08 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

ILO
Conditions of Work and Employment Programme

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 20
Age discrimination and older workers: Theory and legislation in comparative context (2008)
by Naj Ghosheh
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/publ/20cwe.htm
or
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/20cws.pdf
[full-text, 67 pages]

The growth in number and proportion of older people in many countries around the world has lead to growing concerns about existing social policies and whether they are equitable to all parts of society. Pressures on retirement pension systems have been met with calls from a number of policymakers to simply raise retirement ages and extend working life. This assumes a simple extension of the status quo for older workers in the labour market, which may not be in tune reality. In order to adequately address the concerns of older workers a number of policy tools must be considered in order to address inequities in the labour market. One policy tool that has received increasing the attention of policymakers has been age discrimination legislation. Age discrimination legislation can help to not only extend working lives for older workers who are able and choose to continue work, but also to help ensure decent conditions of work and employment for those who are looking for work. This first of its kind systematically examines what age discrimination legislation exists at international, supranational, and national levels to identify what similarities and differences exist in this form of legislation in countries around the world. This examination is underpinned by a theoretical foundation which highlights the importance of age discrimination legislation as an important tool in the policy arsenal to help older workers secure and retain decent conditions of work and employment.

Contents
Page
Preface......................................................................................................................... v
1. Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 1
2. Ageism, age discrimination and capability theory: Theoretical foundations of age discrimination legislation.................................................................................................................. 3
Age discrimination: Its place in the pantheon of employment discrimination........................ 4
Societal need for age discrimination legislation..................................................................... 5
Important components of age discrimination legislation........................................................ 6
3. Reconsidering the obvious: Is there a nexus between mandatory retirement, pension age and age discrimination legislation?.......................................................................................................... 9
Retirement in the real world......................................................................................... 10
4. International and supranational age discrimination legislation..................................................... 13
ADL around the world............................................................................................................ 13
International standards: ILO and age discrimination.............................................................. 13
Supranational age discrimination legislation: The European Union Directive addressing older workers.......................................................................................................................... 15
5. National age discrimination legislation: International experience................................................ 17
Unlawful age discrimination................................................................................................... 17
Constitutional provisions.............................................................................................. 17
Comprehensive discrimination legislation.................................................................... 18
Specific age discrimination legislation......................................................................... 18
Human rights legislation............................................................................................... 19
Law and employment policy approach......................................................................... 20
Importance of defining "age" in law: Different approaches......................................... 21
Unlawful direct and indirect discrimination........................................................................... 23
Harassment, victimization and instructions to discriminate.................................................... 26
Harassment................................................................................................................... 26
Instructions to discriminate........................................................................................... 27
Victimization................................................................................................................ 28
Redundancy and dismissal protection in age discrimination legislation................................. 29
Scope of employer liability..................................................................................................... 30
Scope of protection................................................................................................................. 31
Working conditions and access to training............................................................................. 33
Genuine occupational qualification: The employer's provision............................................. 36
Burden of proof and remedies................................................................................................. 39
Institutions and bodies to address age discrimination legislation........................................... 42
6. Conclusions.................................................................................................................................. 45
Annex 1: Legislation........................................................................................................................ 47
Annex 2: Older Workers Recommendation, 1980 (No. 162)............................................................ 55

______________________________
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****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 5:28 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

Second European Quality of Life Survey First Findings (Résumé) [18 November 2008]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0852.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/52/en/1/EF0852EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]

Author: Foundation

Summary: The European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) represents a unique attempt to explore quality of life in a wide range of countries. It is a major source of information, highlighting the social and economic policy challenges facing the EU following the two recent rounds of enlargement. The survey paints a unique picture of the social situation in the enlarged Union, a picture that includes both objective and subjective elements. The main results of the second EQLS will be published in spring 2009, followed by a series of more detailed reports around key policy themes.

Includes numerous CHARTS....
______________________________
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****************************************
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 8:25 AM

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Friday, November 21, 2008

[IWS] NO MESSAGES until 8 December 2008

[IWS] CONGO MINER--WORKER PROFILE (MarketPlace Radio) [20 November 2008]

Thursday, November 20, 2008

[IWS] USCC: [CHINA] 2008 REPORT TO CONGRESS [20 November 2008]

[IWS] IILS: EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: TRENDS & POLICY ISSUES [November 2008]

[IWS] IILS: PROMISE & PERILS OF PARTICIPATORY POLICY-MAKING [November 2008]

[IWS] ILR Press: WOMEN DOCTORS & the EVOLUTION of HEALTH CARE in AMERICA (THE CHANGING FACE OF MEDICINE) [November 2008]

[IWS] ITUC: 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS [20 November 2008]

[IWS] EC: EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE REPORT 2008 [18 November 2008]

[IWS] Census: NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS DATABASE [19 November 2008]

[IWS] OECD: REFORM of DISABILITY SYSTEMS (Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands) [20 November 2008]

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

[IWS] New! GLOBAL UNION RESEARCH NETWORK (GURN) - WEB SITE [18 November 2008]

[IWS] ILO: AGE DISCRIMINATION & OLDER WORKERS: COMPARATIVE CONTEXT--LEGISLATION & THEORY

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

[IWS] Dublin Foundation: 2nd EUROPEAN QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY--First Findings (Résumé) [18 November 2008]

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