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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:19:44 +1000
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Subject: [acna] Douglas Rushkoff Article
Hi all,
This article was in Melbourne Age in yesterdays IT pages... I wrote to
Douglas a
Employment zones are a local pilot application of the Blairite programme
of welfare to work, modelled on the US precedent. They seek to achieve
full employment but without assigning any power to workers which might
result from that. Full employment is very contradictory for capitalism. On
the one
I can't speak to the details of the British case. Here in Cape Breton,
Canada the notion of a development zone makes an enormous amount of sense.
In fact, the availability of a development agency with some funds and some
discretion specific to the region is one of the major resources available
t
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:25:26 -0300
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Subject: Re: IT development in NS ?
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The Internet Capital
Virginia, with its we
You can access this information on the Internet:
http://www.uva.nl/congresbureau
At this site, scroll down to the September 98 listing for this conference
Sally
Greetings all...
I would like to share my concerns about an apparent contradiction in
the UK Employment Zones approach.
Reform of active labour market measures in Canada and the UK in the 1990s
has involved increases in targetting (but not money), by which I mean the
number of discrete programm
The Anti-Wedge: a Fresh Look at Labour Costs and Benefits
In a 1964 article, Joseph Garbarino mentioned the growing consensus among
business, government and labour that fringe benefits formed a
fixed-cost-per-worker wedge that tilted employers toward scheduling longer
hours of work for their ex