>Comments: Authenticated sender is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Resent-from: "vivian Hutchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Resent-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Lerner) >Resent-date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:53:37 +0000 >Comments: Authenticated sender is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "vivian Hutchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "The Jobs Letter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "The Jobs Letter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "The Jobs Letter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:41:24 +0000 >X-Distribution: Moderate >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: Employment on the Internet Hot-Links (from the Jobs Letter No. >Reply-to: "The Jobs Letter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Priority: normal > > >F E A T U R E >------------------ >from >T H E J O B S L E T T E R 0 6 7 >a subscriber-based letter >published in New Zealand 1 October 1997 > ------------------------------------- > >INTERNET RESOURCES FOR >EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH AND ACTIVISM > >Lost on the Internet? Where do you find websites and >contacts for groups involved in employment? In this >special feature, the Jobs Letter editors present an essential >guide to the main internet forums and websites on employment >issues and community economic development. > >E-MAILING LISTS > >An internet mailing list is a computer conference or discussion >group that talks to itself through e-mail. For each letter that >you write and send only once, the mailing list administration >program, called a listserver, copies it and sends it to all the >other people on the mailing list. > >Mailing lists on the internet cover a huge variety of topics from >idle gossip to the latest technological advancements. They are >different from the other net discussion forums because of the >nature of e-mail. The internet chat groups are much more >immediate, and more like talking. With internet newsgroups, you >take your time to write your letter, and you may take weeks >before you go back and read other people's responses. An internet >mailing list is halfway between these two forums: it's more like >letter writing than a conversation, but responses tend to be more >immediate and they are delivered to your e-mail box where you >can't miss them. > >Joining a list > >To join a mailing list you are interested in is called >subscribing. This is usually free. There are two e-mail addresses >you need to know about when dealing with a mailing list. The >first is the administrative address (listserver) and the second >is the address of the list itself (listname). > >You subscribe or unsubscribe from a list by sending an e-mail to >the administrative address. This address usually begins with >"listproc", "listserv" or "majordomo", which are the names of >list administration computer programs that can handle a number of >commands automatically without the list administrator needing to >do anything. It recognises commands sent to it in the body of an >e- mail and usually ignores the subject line. > >To subscribe you normally send a "subscribe" command to the >administrative address associated with the email list. > >Example -- to join the futurework mailing list you send an e-mail >message to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with the message : "subscribe futurework YourE-MailAddress" > >Note: different email lists ask for different sign-up commands. >Some lists ask for your email address (as in the futurework >example) or they will ask for your full name instead of your >email address (and the list computer automatically reads your >email address from your message). > >When subscribing be sure not to include any other text (and that >means your signature file) because this may be interpreted by the >administration program as further commands. > >When you subscribe you will automatically be added to the list >and will most likely receive a welcoming letter which will >explain the purpose of the list and any associated rules as well >as information on how to unsubscribe and other commands you can >send to the administrative address. Save this mail for future >reference and make sure you read it thoroughly (it could save >some embarrassing moments later on). > >If the list has a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file this, or >instructions on how to retrieve it, may also be sent to you. A >FAQ is an in-depth explanation of the group which generally >answers the most commonly-asked questions. Be sure to read this >before posting to the group as it may answer the very question >you were going to ask! > >Shortly after this you should begin to receive e-mail from the >other people on the list (don't worry if it does not come >straight away as it may take a few days to filter through). > >Mailing lists vary in the number of posting per day so expect >anything between one to one hundred postings a day. The busier >lists often offer a digest form. This means instead of receiving >multiple postings you can elect to have each day's postings >bundled into one big e-mail. This is often handier as it cuts >down the number of emails and is easier to keep track of. You >should get instructions on how to set your mailing list to Digest >form, when you subscribe to it, or in its FAQ file. > >Other common commands you can send to the administrative >address include requests to receive a list of recipients, >requests to stop receiving messages until further notice and >requests for a list of other mailing lists operated from the same >server. The specific commands vary depending on the mail server >program being used. You can (usually) find out which commands you >should use by sending the message "help <listname>" to the >listserver. > >Sending a message to the list > >When you want to send email messages to all the other people >subscribed to the full list, do not send it to the list >processing computer (Majordomo), but to the name of the list >conference itself. > >Example -- to send messages to the futurework mailing list you >send an e-mail message to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You'll be receiving a lot of new mail, some of which won't be >relevant to you. Some programs will show you whether mail is from >a mailing list by putting the list name in the subject. With >others, you'll have to look in the "To:" field which will show >whether it was sent to you or to the list. You don't have to >reply to every post you receive from the list -- you will quickly >find yourself mired in information overload! > >Netiquette. > >Internet mailing lists are an excellent way of exchanging >information and ideas. The following "netiquette` items are the >main rules-of-thumb needed to guide you on your way ... > >* When you first join a list you may like to introduce >yourself. Use your discretion as to what is appropriate. If you >are unsure how to approach an introduction wait until you have a >feel for the list before jumping in blind. > >* When replying to a post make sure it is appropriate to >reply to the entire group _ and note that simply selecting >"Reply" in your e-mail application will send the message to the >entire list. If it is more appropriate to send a private e-mail >message in response, find the person's e-mail address in the >"From:" field of the message, and paste it into a new message. >Also, try not to send a command for the administration program to >the list address as this can be embarrassing (everyone can see >that you did it). > >* As in all on-line discussion groups keep your responses as >brief as possible and don't deviate too much from the topic being >discussed. Quote other people where appropriate but avoid over >quoting. There is nothing more annoying than reading a couple of >k's of quoted material just to see one line tagged onto the end >(unless it is particularly humorous or witty). > >* Most importantly don't send irrelevant posts to the lists >especially if it is advertising or part of a mass send out. There >are special forums to announce new happenings and advertising for >specific things so be sure you are sending to the correct group >before madly posting away. This is not to say you cannot ever >send announcements of new sites, just to make sure the people you >are sending it to would be genuinely interested in receiving the >post. > >Sources -- adapted from "Mailing Lists" by Fiona Honor in the >magazine internet.au > > >INTERNET MAILING LISTS > >1. FUTUREWORK : Re-designing Work, Income Distribution, and >Education > >FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion >of how to deal with the new realities created by economic >globalisation and technological change. Its moderators are Sally >Lerner and Arthur Cordell. They believe that basic changes are >occurring in the nature of work in all industrialised countries >with information technology hastening the advent of the global >economic village. Jobs at all skill levels that workers in >developed countries once held are now filled by smart machines >and/or by workers in low-wage countries. Contemporary rhetoric >proclaims the need for ever-escalating competition, leaner and >meaner ways of doing business, a totally "flexible" workforce, >and jobless growth. > >What would a large permanent reduction in the number of >secure, adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and >individuals? Lerner and Cordell say that questions like this are >not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for >income distribution and education. This e-mail forum discusses >how to take back control of these events, and how to turn >technological change into the opportunity for enriching people's >livesrather than the recipe for a "bladerunner" society. > >Lerner and Cordell: "Our objective in creating this list is to >involve as many people as possible in re-designing for the new >realities. We hope that this list will help to move these issues >to a prominent place on public and political agendas worldwide." > >FUTUREWORK : Re-designing Work, Income Distribution, and >Education > >Subscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With the message : subscribe futurework YourE-MailAddress > >Once subscribed, send your messages to : >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >2. CED-NET -- Community Economic Development in Developed >Countries > >CED-NET is an unmoderated discussion list for anyone >interested in trends, opportunities and changes in community >economic development. The focus of this forum is on what >communities can do for themselves in terms of achieving access to >knowledge, programs, markets, and funding in this field. CED-NET >is a forum for information-sharing, developing appropriate >training programs and tools, sharing innovative technologies and >discussion on the role of government policies and programs in >fostering positive community economic development. > >CED-NET : Community Economic Development in Developed >Countries > >Subscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With the message : subscribe ced-net > >Once subscribed, send your messages to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >3. ONLINE CONFERENCES : e.g. Fast Track, the MAI and >Sustainability -- an Online Seminar hosted by Communications for >a Sustainable Future (September 29-October 10, 1997) > >Communications for a Sustainable Future was founded on the >idea that "computer networking could be used to enhance >communications with the objective of working through disparate >views and ideologies to secure a more promising future..." CSF's >online seminars on sustainable economics are an excellent example >of using a combination of email lists and website resources to >provoke and deepen debate on current issues. > >An online conference in March this year was focussed around the >publication of Herman Daly's (recently published) book on "Beyond >Economics: The Economics of Sustainable Development". For a >fortnight period, people who have read the book gathered online >to share their responses and ask Professor Daly questions. > >Just starting this week is another short-term conference >focussing on the MAI Trade Agreement currently being negotiated >in Paris at the OECD (see also The Jobs Letter No.64). The >seminar will focus on issues such as Fast-track Negotiating; >Preservation of Environmental Rights; Transnational Corporation >Accountability; and Sustainable Justice. CSF provides a >home-page for the conference and you can download many of the >"perspective papers" relating to the MAI debate. This can be >found at http://csf.colorado.edu/se/ > >MAI On-line Seminar : September 29-October 10, 1997 > >Subscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With the message : sub Sustainable-Economics Firstname >Lastname > >Once subscribed, send your messages to : Sustainable- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >4. BEYOND DEPENDENCY NETWORK -- (NZ-based) > >The Beyond Dependency Network is sponsored by the NZ >Social Welfare Department and was set up after the controversial >Beyond Dependency Conference held in Auckland earlier this year. >The objective of the Beyond Dependency Network is to facilitate >the sharing of information on policies, programmes and >initiatives "that work" to help working-age people make >successful transitions out of long-term welfare dependency into >paid work and self-reliance. > >There is an archive of the "ideas" discussed to date on their >website at http://www.beyond- >dependency.org.nz/exchange/article/maillist.html > >BEYOND DEPENDENCY NETWORK -- > >Subscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With the message : subscribe ideas > >Once subscribed, send your messages to : ideas@beyond- >dependency.org.nz > >5. UNEMPLOYMENT RESEARCH (UK-based) > >This email list was recently started by Ray Thomas, of the >Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University UK, to "provide a >forum for discussion and exchange of information on unemployment >problems". It is very much UK-based at the moment, and also >reflects Thomas's own particular interest in the measurement of >unemployment and his criticisms that people are not being counted >in the British statistical system. Thomas: "What does government >gain by failing to recognise or measure the extent and size of >Britain's labour reserves?" The forum also seeks to spark debate >on wider employment issues. > >UNEMPLOYMENT RESEARCH > >Subscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With the message : join unemployment-research Firstname >Lastname > >Once subscribed, send your messages to : unemployment- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >INTERNET SITES > >1. The JOBS RESEARCH TRUST Website > > http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/ > >Our own website -- for free access to back issues of The Jobs >Letter and our archive of key papers and articles on employment >issues. Check it out ! > >2. BRAVENEWWORKWORLD and NEWWORK NEWS -- All about >work. All the time. For business, education, and careers. > > http://www.newwork.com/ > >Gary Johnson sifts through the world's major online newspapers >every day for articles and items of interest to the new economy >and new world of work. He also keeps items on welfare reform, >sexual harassment, the resurgence of slavery in third-world >countries and dozens of other topics about ``life and work in the >new economy.'' The site's daily-news section, NewWork News, has >amassed thousands of article summaries and become an informal >wire service for academics, journalists, politicians and >employment activists internationally. > >This website was built for the online info-surfer ... all the >items come with clickable links to the original articles and >columns from which his summaries are sourced. The website also >offers in-depth essays (written by Johnson and other regular >contributors) that ponder pressing questions: What do changes in >the world economy mean for individuals, businesses, education, >the professions, government? What should workers do to succeed >amid such upheavals? > >Gary Johnson: ``From now on, society's work will be conducted in >dramatically new ways through dramatically different ways of >organising. Old expectations and approaches no longer apply. >Throw out the old rule books. Forget the old habits. Prepare to >do nearly everything differently...'' > >3. HUDSON INSTITUTE AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY INSTITUTE > > http://www.hudson.org/ > > http://www.epfnet.org/ > >These are two sites for a more conservative analysis of >employment issues. They both do research and make >recommendations about public policy for business and government >executives and for the public at large. > >The HUDSON INSTITUTE is a private, not-for-profit research >organisation founded in 1961 by the late Herman Kahn. It says it >does not advocate an express ideology or political position. >However, it prides itself on a viewpoint that "... embodies >scepticism about the conventional wisdom, optimism about solving >problems, a commitment to free institutions and individual >responsibility, an appreciation of the crucial role of technology >in achieving progress, and an abiding respect for the importance >of values, culture, and religion in human affairs..." The Hudson >Institute is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It also >maintains offices in Washington, D.C.; Madison, Wisconsin; and >Brussels, Belgium. > >Ten years ago, in 1987, the Hudson Institute published >"Workforce 2000". It was a provocative book that focussed >attention on an emerging mismatch between the skills needed to >prosper in a technologically dynamic, globally integrated economy >and the qualifications of its workers---especially of new >entrants to the workforce. It outlined the steps America needed >to take to prepare its workers and their employers for the >economy of the Year 2000. An update of this book has just been >produced entitled "Workforce 2020" by Richard W. Judy and Carol >D'Amico. A preview of this revised and updated book can be found >on the Hudson website. > >The EMPLOYMENT POLICY FOUNDATION is a research and >education foundation which comments on U.S. employment policies >affecting the competitive goals of American industry and the >people it employs. The EPI conducts studies of the economic and >productivity consequences of employment legislation, executive >orders, regulations, and court decisions. Taking full advantage >of new information technology, the EPF disseminates its research >and policy papers to the public from its website, and an email >mailing list. > >4. TIMEWORK WEB > > http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm > >This is the official home page of the Shorter Work Time Network >of Canada, and is a mine of information and internet links >related to work and working time. The TimeWork Web was launched >in June 1995, and is both a research facility and an activist >organizing site. > >Timework: "Post-industrial society in North America is >experiencing a time famine. Yet, while many working people have >inadequate time to pursue family, personal, and community life, >others have become economically redundant in the continuing waves >of corporate downsizing. The maldistribution of work and free >time, with attendant inequality of incomes, has created a growing >social problem. We believe that this problem may effectively be >addressed by a general reduction in working hours..." > >C R E D I T S >------------------- >edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust >P.O.Box 428, New Plymouth, New Zealand >phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-759-4648 >Internet address -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Jobs Letter -- an essential information and media watch on >jobs, employment, unemployment, the future of work, and related >economic and education issues. > >The Jobs Research Trust -- a not-for-profit Charitable Trust >constituted in 1994 to develop and distribute information that >will help our communities create more jobs and reduce >unemployment and poverty in New Zealand. > >Our internet website at > > http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/ > >contains our back issues and key papers, >and hotlinks to other internet resources. > >ends >------ > >The Jobs Letter >essential information on an essential issue >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-759-4648 >P.O.Box 428 >New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand > >visit The Jobs Research Website at >http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/ >
