IWS Documented News INTERNATIONAL: February 2010

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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DATA.GOV

www.data.gov

Welcome to Data.gov

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

DATA.GOV for Labor Force, Employment, and Earning

"RAW DATA"

http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw/category/12/agency/0/filter//type//sort//page/1/count/25

[69 records as of 26 February 2010]

DATA.GOV for U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw/category/0/agency/41/filter//type//sort//page/1/count/25

[41 records as of 26 February 2010]

Data.gov includes searchable catalogs that provide access to "raw" datasets and various tools. In the "raw" data catalog, you may access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMZ, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats. The catalog of tools links you to sites that include data mining and extraction tools and widgets. Datasets and tools available on Data.gov are searchable by category, agency, keyword, and/or data format. Once in the catalog, click on the "name" (i.e, the name of the dataset or tool of interest) and you will be taken to a page with more details and metadata on that specific dataset or tool. Please note that by accessing datasets or tools offered on Data.gov, you agree to the Data Policy, which you should read before accessing any data. If there are additional datasets that you would like to see included on this site, please suggest more datasets here. For more information on how to use Data.gov, view the tutorial. In addition, Data.gov has been integrated with additional federal geospatial datasets which can be accessed using the Data.gov geodata catalog.

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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 : 10:27 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 Labour Organization

Social Dialogue

Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

Global Capital Strategies and Trade Union Responses: Collective Bargaining and Transnational Trade Union cooperation

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_122375/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_122375.pdf

[full-text, 224 pages]

International Journal of Labour Research,2009 Vol. 1, Issue 2:The new issue of the International Journal of Labour Research presents a collection of papers that analyse in detail the character of global capital strategies and their impact on workers, as well as trade union responses to these strategies, in particular responses related to the development of transnational forms of collective bargaining.

Trade union strategies towards global production systems

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_114951/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_114951.pdf

[full-text, 108 pages]

International Journal of Labour Research,2009 Vol. 1, Issue 1: The International Journal of Labour Research is published by the Bureau for Workers’ Activities. It provides an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The International Journal of Labour Research is multidisciplinary and will be of interest to trade union researchers, labour ministries and academics of all relevant disciplines - industrial relations, sociology, law, economics and political science. It is published twice a year in English, French and Spanish.

Additional publications from ACTRAV are found at

http://www.ilo.org/actrav/what/pubs/lang--en/index.htm

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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 : 7:24 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
________________________________________________________________________

Gross Domestic Product: Fourth Quarter 2009 (Second Estimate) [26 February 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/gdp4q09_2nd.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_2nd.pdf

[full-text, 13 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/xls/gdp4q09_2nd.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_2nd_fax.pdf

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property

located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009

(that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter) according to the "second" estimate released by the

Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.

The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available

for the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 5.7

percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).

The increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from

private inventory investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and nonresidential

fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

The acceleration in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in private

inventory investment, an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment, a deceleration in imports, and an

acceleration in exports that were partly offset by decelerations in PCE and in federal government

spending.

Motor vehicle output added 0.44 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after

adding 1.45 percentage points to the third-quarter change. Final sales of computers subtracted 0.01

percentage point from the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.08 percentage point

from the third-quarter change.

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FOOTNOTE.--Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise

specified. Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates.

Percent changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. “Real” estimates are in chained

(2005) dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.

This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights

related to this release.

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AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 6:55 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)

A SHAMEFUL BUSINESS: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace [February 2010]

James A. Gross

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5584

$21.95s paper

Available in FEBRUARY, 264 pages, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7644-0

$59.95x cloth

Available in FEBRUARY, 264 pages, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-4844-7

In a book that confronts the moral choices that U.S. corporations make every day in the treatment of their workers, James A. Gross issues a clarion call for the transformation of the American workplace based on genuine respect for human rights, rather than whatever the economic and regulatory landscape might allow. Gross questions the nation's underlying fabric of values as reflected in its laws and our assumptions about workers and the workplace. Arguing that our market philosophy is incompatible with core principles of human rights, he forces readers to realign the country's labor policies so that they conform with the highest international human rights standards. To make his case, Gross assesses various aspects of U.S. labor relations—freedom of association, racial discrimination, management rights, workplace safety, and human resources—through the lens of internationally accepted human rights principles as standards of judgment. His findings are chilling.

"Employers who maintain workplaces that require men and women and sometimes even children to risk their lives and endanger their health and eyes and limbs in order to earn a living are treating human life as cheap and are seeking their own gain through the desecration of human life," Gross argues, and such behavior should be considered as crimes against humanity rather than matters of efficiency, productivity, or morale. By revealing how truly unacceptable management's "best practices" can be when considered as human rights issues, A Shameful Business encourages a bold new vision for workers, whether organized or not, that would signify a radical rethinking of social values and the concept of workplace rights and justice in the courtroom, the boardroom, and on the shop floor.

Reviews

"If you're not convinced already that the rights of America's workers have been thoroughly trumped by corporate property rights—and that we are paying an unacceptably high price as a result—you will be after reading this powerful and deeply unsettling book."—Sheldon Friedman, Research Coordinator, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Campaign

"A Shameful Business offers a thoughtful and comprehensive critique of contemporary labor policy in America. By viewing labor rights as human rights, James A. Gross has provided a provocative, highly original, and thoroughly readable record of America's shocking failure to comply with international human rights norms. "—Robert Hebdon, McGill University

About the Author

James A. Gross is Professor of Labor Law at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is editor of Workers' Rights as Human Rights, also from Cornell, and coeditor most recently of Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations: International and Domestic Perspectives, also available from Cornell.

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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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 11:31 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
________________________________________________________________________

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

Health, United States, 2009 [17 February 2010]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

or

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus09.pdf

[full-text, 574 pages]

See Press Release 17 February 2010

http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100217.htm

Contents

Preface..................................... iii

Acknowledgments............................. vi

List of Chartbook Figures........................ xiii

List of TrendTables............................ xv

Executive Summary and Highlights

ExecutiveSummary............................ 3

Highlights................................... 6

Population................................. 6

Fertility and Natality.......................... 6

LifeExpectancy and Mortality .................. 6

Health Risk Factors.......................... 7

Measures of Health and Disability............... 7

Health Care Utilization........................ 8

Health Care Resources....................... 10

Health Care Expenditures and Payors ........... 10

Special Feature:MedicalTechnology............. 11

Chartbook With Special Feature on Medical Technology Population................................... 14

Age...................................... 14

Race and Ethnicity.......................... 16

Living Veterans............................. 18

Poverty................................... 20

Health Risk Factors and Disease Prevention......... 24

TobaccoUse .............................. 24

OverweightandObesity....................... 26

Sleep .................................... 28

InfluenzaandPneumococcalVaccinationAmong Middle-ageandOlderAdults.................. 30

MorbidityandLimitationofActivity................. 32

PovertyandChronicConditions................. 32

OccupationalHealth ......................... 34

Depression................................ 36

LimitationofActivityCausedbyChronicConditions: Children ................................. 38

LimitationofActivityCausedbyChronicConditions: Working-ageandOlderAdults................. 40

Mortality .................................... 44

LifeExpectancy............................. 44

InfantMortality ............................. 46

LeadingCausesofDeathforAllAges............ 48

HealthInsuranceandExpenditures................ 50

HealthInsuranceattheTimeofInterview ......... 50

LengthofTimeWithoutHealthInsurance.......... 52

PersonalHealthCareExpenditures.............. 54

PersonalHealthCareExpendituresbySourceof Funds................................... 56

SpecialFeature:MedicalTechnology............... 59

IntroductionandTimeline...................... 59

FederallyRegulated(CLIA)Laboratories .......... 66

SelectedImagingTechnologies ................. 68

Mammography.............................. 72

JointReplacementProcedures.................. 76

AngioplastyandCoronaryStentingProcedures ..... 78

CholecystectomyProcedures................... 80

UpperEndoscopyandColonoscopy.............. 82

GeographicVariationinUseofIntensiveCareUnits intheLast6MonthsofLife................... 84

SolidOrganTransplantation.................... 88

AssistedReproductiveTechnology(ART).......... 92

PrescriptionDrugs........................... 94

HighlyActiveAntiretroviralTherapy(HAART)....... 98

CostsforHospitalizationsWithProcedures......... 102

TechnicalNotes............................... 105

DataSourcesandComparability................ 105

DataPresentation........................... 105

SurveyQuestionsandCoding.................. 105

DataTablesforFigures1–36..................... 109

Trend Tables

HealthStatusandDeterminants................... 147

Population................................. 147

FertilityandNatality.......................... 154

Mortality.................................. 176

DeterminantsandMeasuresofHealth............ 249

UtilizationofHealthResources ................... 308

AmbulatoryCare............................ 308

InpatientCare.............................. 353

HealthCareResources......................... 374

Personnel................................. 374

Facilities.................................. 384

HealthCareExpendituresandPayors.............. 392

NationalHealthExpenditures................... 392

HealthCareCoverageandMajorFederal Programs ................................ 416

StateHealthExpendituresandHealthInsurance .... 435

Appendixes

Contents.................................... 441

I. DataSources............................ 445

GovernmentSources.................... 446

PrivateandGlobalSources............... 490

II. DefinitionsandMethods.................... 496

III. AdditionalDataYearsAvailable.............. 550

Index

Index ...................................... 553

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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
****************************************

# posted by SBasefsky : 8:57 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
________________________________________________________________________

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Globalization of Science and Engineering Research: A Companion to Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 [19 February 2010]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsb1003/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsb1003/pdf/nsb1003.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

IWS Documented News INTERNATIONAL

Friday, February 26, 2010

[IWS] DATA.GOV [Raw Data Sets] on LABOR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT, & EARNINGS; DEPT. OF LABOR

[IWS] ILO: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of LABOUR RESEARCH 2009, Vol. 1, Issues 1 & 2 (and other publications from ACTRAV)

[IWS] BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: 4TH Qtr 2009 (2nd Estimate) [26 February 2010]

Thursday, February 25, 2010

[IWS] ILR Press: A SHAMEFUL BUSINESS: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace [February 2010]

[IWS] HEALTH, UNITED STATES 2009 [17 February 2010]

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

[IWS] NSF: GLOBALIZATION of SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH: A COMPANION to SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2010 [19 February 2010]

[IWS} Pew: MILLENNIALS: A Portrait of Generation Next--Confident.Connected.Open to Change.[24 February 2010]

[IWS] EIRO: New EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY on CROSS-BORDER TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK [17 February 2010]

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