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> From: Keith Rankin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Did you see the Tuesday documentary on TV1 last night? It was called "The
> Great Leveller" and is based on the book _Unhealthy Societies_ by British
> economic historian Richard Wilkinson.
>
> Wilkinson has shown through
Can you help with leads, info etc?
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> From: Deborah Tucker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> My main research work that I'm just starting on, (working under Ian
> Shirley), both to finish the Masters and possibly for the Ministry of
> Social
> Policy, is a comparative study on the
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> From:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> The website of the Thematic Network on Full Employment for Europe at
> www.barkhof.uni-bremen.de/kua/memo/europe/tser/ may be of interest to
>
> members of this list.
>
> The Network is an internatio
I am seeking ideas and information
I have been making representations to the City Council (Palmerston North,
New Zealand) on the need to update their employment and economic development
policies, from the general and meaningless to something more specific, along
the lines of employers more likely
FYI
You've seen the headlines, "GDP Up 5.4%." Good news, right? Not really. The
gross domestic product simply adds up all the money we spend, and calls the
results economic growth. Yet for years, economists, policymakers, reporters,
and the public have relied on the GDP as a shorthand indicator of
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The Importance of Trust
Paper given at the 6th National Conference on Unemployment, University of
Newcastle, 23&24 September 1999.
John Tomlinson
Abstract
The major problem facing Australian people without paid employment (or
sufficient paid work) is not the absence of work but the absence
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Keith Rankin's Thursday Column Whither the Bourgeoisie?
We frequently hear these days about the plight of the middle class, or the
middle classes. But who are the middle classes? Are they simply those people
(or households?) who earn between the median income and the 90th or 95th
percentile?
interested in employment issues at the local level because the
forum included the cream of workers in this field in the country.
Several groups around the country have been very interested in the Summit,
particularly with a view to running one of their own, said Ian Ritchie, one
of the organising group. The
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When our working lives end at 45
DAVID THOMSON looks at trends in age group employment and suggests that
people in their later 40s and 50s will soon have to find something else to
do.
Dialogue, NZ Herald, 5 August 1999
Paid work past about age 45 is vanishing fast. This change of the pas
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Column - New Zealand's Ageing Non-Workforce
Thursday, 29 July 1999, 9:25 am
Article:
New Zealand's Ageing Non-Workforce
Keith Rankin's Thursday Column
Massey University History Professor David Thomson, in his Winter Lecture
(University of Auckland, 27 July), described a little-apprecia
The NS Essay - Towards the knowledge society
Markets are too cruel, communities too stifling, third ways too much of a
fudge. Charles Leadbeater offers a fourth and better way
I will start with myself. I do not work for a company or a
university. I am neither a business consultant nor a civil
Work, Social Capital, and the Rebirth of the Civil Society:
A Blueprint for a New Third Sector Politics
Rapporteur: Mr Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic
Trends, Washington, DC
Index
The global econo
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> From: stu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> DOWN AMONG THE ECONOMISTS
> by Jonathon Rowe
> Of the organized belief systems in America today, economics is surely
> among
> the strangest - and economists themselves are even stranger. How such
> agile
> and ambitious minds
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> From: B Sandford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> FYI
>
> ICQ: 20816964
> Fax: USA(707)215-6524
>
> ***
> News via ainriail the Irish Anarchist Bulletin list
> see http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/inter/email_lists.html
>
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> From: Dr Gavin Putland[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Please note that my book SIX MONTHS TO FULL EMPLOYMENT, which
> advocates a universal basic income, is now in the PUBLIC DOMAIN
> and is available at www.users.bigpond.com/putland .
>
> Some more r
Have a look at this
"A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an unconditional cash payment to
individuals sufficient to meet basic needs."
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geocities.com/~ubinz/
also
I have developed a model "Widgets in S-Basic" that demonstrates that a
"Citizen's Dividend" not only can
the Summit is to show that there are many answers to
creating 'meaningful, sustainable, work and income opportunities', they
happen at all levels in the community and there is plenty of room for each
and every one of us to play a part, says Ian Ritchie, one of the organisers.
The pape
Does "The Public" mean all of us, equally?
Keith Rankin, 24 January 1999
We have become accustomed to thinking of "the public" as a collective term
for all of the people who make up a nation. Furthermore, as members of the
public, we all belong equally to that collective entity.
Pinning down
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> From: Caspar Davis[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Here is the official release of our CITIZENS' PUBLIC TRUST TREATY. It
> is being circulated world wide in English, Spanish, and French, for
> signature.
>
> Please circulate it and post it anywhere you
This may be of interest
Ian
> Proactive Money
>
> by Flemming Funch, 9 April 95.
>
> I was just pondering how the concept of money can make sense at all in an
> information economy, and I've got some ideas.
>
> Before the arrival of agricultural societies money wasn't needed. Hunters
> and gat
Hikoi of Hope - Enough is Enough!
A glimpse of an amazing event in New Zealand
Ian Ritchie, Judy Redfearn, Peter Horsley, Palmerston North, New Zealand
When we first heard that the national Anglican Synod had decided to organise
a ceremonial walk (Hikoi) from the far ends of the country to
> From the Economist
>
> The non-profit sector - LOVE OR MONEY
>
> FOR economists, the non-profit organisation is something of an
> evolutionary oddity. Without the forces that drive conventional
> firms-shareholders, stock options and, of course, profits-it has still
> managed to thrive in the
Superannualtion referendum (to wipe publicly funded pensions) last year.
Ian
> Ian Ritchie
> Come Alive Consultancy
> Jobs Research Trust
> The Poverty Warriors
> Manawatu Employment Action Group
> UBINZ (Universal Basic Income for New Zealand)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Priv
> The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services and the Joint
> Methodist Presbyterian Public Questions Committee have just completed a
> major piece of work called:
>
> Myths about Poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand
>
> The publication examines eight myths about poverty that currently form
Localising capitalism
Simon Collins reports from the `Beyond Capitalism' conference
>From City Voice, Wellington NZ
FULLTIME jobs for all who want them, at wages sufficient to sustain a
family. Or a "post-job economy" where only a few do fulltime paid work but
their income is shared with th
> ICFTU On Line
> 215/981009/ND
>
> Restructurings at Levi's: trade unions want global discussion
>
> Brussels, 13 October 1998 (ICFTU on-line): "Levi Strauss is applying a
> profoundly anti-union strategy. It announces to the world that it is
> pro-worker, but its real attitude is totally ou
> FYI
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> From:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Long-Term Unemployment Myths
>
> LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT MYTHS
>
> A warm welcome for a new paper by Stephen Machin (UCL) and Alan
> Manning (LSE) `Long-Term Unemployment: Exploding Some M
Cecil Rajendra's came from Don Borrie's paper to the Anti-privatisation
conference - privatisation by NZ local authorities
The second is from a Sustainable America workshop - not sourced.
Ian
Until they Right the Wrong, I shall sing no Celebratory Song
So long as car parks take precedence over
> FYI
> Ian
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> From: Louise May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: RE: Employment Statement
>
>
> Some Concerns About Employment
> A Statement from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference
>
>
>
> In 1991 when the Employment Contracts Legislation was being promoted
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> From: C.J. FORDE[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: C.J. FORDE
> Sent: Thursday, 2 July 1998 05:21
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Call for papers
>
>
>
> LEEDS UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
>
> THIRD ANNUAL POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCE
>
> 13TH NOVEMB
> >Does anyone know of a recent film or video about Mondragon? "The
> Mondragon
> >Experiment" is too old and too British to be effective for my
> students.
> >
> >Ric McIntyre
> >Economics and Labor Research
> >University of Rhode Island
> >Kingston RI 02881
> >
I don't know of a rece
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