T H E J O B S L E T T E R 1 3 2
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published in New Zealand 13 October 2000
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FUTUREWORK RESEARCH
FUTURE INCOMES CONFERENCE
PAUL CALLISTER ON DISAPPEARING WORK
SIMON CHAPPLE ON MAORI DISADVANTAGE
WAITARA
NZH � THE JOBS CHALLENGE
INDUSTRY NZ BOARD
DEPRIVATION ATLAS
MAYORS / GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
The Jobs Letter is now freely available on the internet at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm
or to download as a PDF file (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/pdf/jbl132.pdf
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* Our Diary of key events over the last few weeks. Social worker shortages, Queenstown
vacancies, W
orld Economic Forum, Mayors Taskforce partnerships, Glenbrook upgrade, SIT free fees,
workers buses
, global debt, teacher
recruitment crisis, laying cables, and the brain drain ad.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13201.htm
* The government has announced further details of its plans for research into the
future of work. T
he �Workforce 2010� project which will identify the challenges New Zealanders will
face in the 21st
century labour market.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#futurework
* Future Incomes conference convener Ian Ritchie is calling for a �national incomes
policy� which w
ill set clear goals for our national progress towards a more equitable spread of
income.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#ritchie
* Researcher Paul Callister says that statistical data does not support the view that
paid work in
New Zealand is continuing to �disappear�. But New Zealand society is polarising into
neighbourhoods
of �choice� and neighb
ourhoods of �fate�.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#callister
* Labour Department researcher Simon Chapple raises questions on commonly held views
on Maori disad
vantage.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#chapple
* Links to papers from the Future Incomes Conference and also Ministry of Social
Policy seminars.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#papers
* Is Waitara a racial time-bomb ... or a case study of the effects of growing
unemployment and depr
ivation on a small town?
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#waitara
* The New Zealand Herald has begun a major new feature series called �The Jobs
Challenge� by Simon
Collins and Mathew Dearnaley.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/nzh2000.htm
* Industry New Zealand has announced its first Board members.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#board
* The �Atlas� of deprivation in New Zealand raises awareness of the need to find local
area solutio
ns to poverty.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#deprivation
* The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs have signed up a partnership agreement with government
at the Beehi
ve which seeks to ensure that �barriers are removed where possible� so that
�appropriate, innovativ
e and flexible decision
s� can be made at the local level.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13200.htm#signup
* In his latest book �The Age of Access�, Jeremy Rifkin explores the new culture of
�hypercapitalis
m� where �... all of life is a paid-for experience�. See our online bookstore at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/books/1585420182.htm
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ISSN No. 1172-6695
edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust
P.O.Box 428, New Plymouth, New Zealand
phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-753-4430
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Associates - Rodger Smith, Dave Owens and Jo Howard
Secretary - Shirley Vickery
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unemployment and poverty in New Zealand.
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