FW A very thought-provoking paper

1999-02-04 Thread S. Lerner
Kit Taylor sent me this reference to a paper that strikes me as really important if we are to understand the future of work. Visit the website if you are interested - that's the best way to access the paper. Sally Conference paper on the technological unemployment of knowledge workers ( The Bri

FW Conference: Women, Work and Computerization

1999-02-05 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 07:59:43 -0500 (EST) >From: "Andrew Clement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: WWC 2000 - 1st Call - Women, Work and Computerization > >FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS -- PLEASE CIRCULATE > >Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future > >7th International Federation

FW Futurework begins its fifth year

1998-12-19 Thread S. Lerner
Fours years ago, on Dec. 19, 1994, Futurework was launched from csf.colorado.edu. courtesy of Don Roper -- continuing thanks, Don, for that good start. Within two days we had 200 subscribers, and numbers have hovered between 450 and 500 ever since. We are now served by majordomo at the University

from The Jobsletter No 92 (16 December 1998): Solow on Work andWelfare

1998-12-22 Thread S. Lerner
By permission of The Jobs Letters. >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: Wed, 16 Dec 19

FW Website of possible interest

1998-12-22 Thread S. Lerner
TAX WASTE, NOT WORK - a report published by "Redefining Progress" (1997) http://www.rprogress.org/pubs/twnw/twnw_execsum.html "Offers a new approach to fiscal and environmental policy -- a revenue-neutral shift to resource taxes or emission permits -- which holds the potential to strengthen the e

FW Human Rights Conference (fwd)

1998-11-01 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:58:35 -0400 (AST) >From: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Human Rights Conference (fwd) >To: canada-l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Canadian futures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

FW Comment sought from Sweden on basic income (fwd)

1998-11-01 Thread S. Lerner
>X-Originating-IP: [130.241.181.236] >From: "mats hoglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: basic income >Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:10:26 PST >Status: U > >Hi! >Im a 29 y.o swedish student interested in basic income. Maybe I will >write my final paper about that subject (I have

FW Action packet re Nike 1/2 (fwd)

1998-11-03 Thread S. Lerner
From:Tom Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Nike mobilization packet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Campaign for Labor Rights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Nike mobilization packet Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To subscribe or u

FW Action packet re Nike 2/2

1998-11-03 Thread S. Lerner
[cover letter] Dear Nike campaign activist, We are happy to be sending our special action packet to help you in organizing an event in your community for the October 17 Nike Mobilization. Please take a few minutes to read through this cover letter, which explains the rationale for making the fo

FW: Ray's response to interesting paper

1999-02-07 Thread S. Lerner
Ray wrote: snip >"I think we will eventually have to accept that the holistic non literal >nature is best left to the highest and most creative activities that >humanity can conceive while the concept of "Jobs" in the old "hired >hands" sense may very well pass away. > >It could be one of the iron

FW Re the end of 'wage slavery'

1999-02-08 Thread S. Lerner
I'm sure Chris Reuss's experience is not in the least unique. I believe legions of people learned in our school systems and workplaces that they are stupid and good for little else than amusing themselves and staying away from authorities' boots. For many of them, there may be little to offer now

FW Check out some new links on the Futurework website

1998-11-04 Thread S. Lerner
*FUTUREWORK LISTS MONTHLY REMINDER* FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, Education FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and technological change. Basic ch

FW ILO paper of interest (fwd)

1998-11-10 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:16:54 -0500 From:Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities: Discussion Paper on Globalization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The following is the Table of Contents of an ILO working pap

FW Wise words from Ursula Franklin(fwd)

1998-11-10 Thread S. Lerner
BUILDING A PEOPLE-FIRST ECONOMY: Canada under the occupation of an army of marketeers By Dr. Ursula Franklin Life means people, and people mean friendship, support, sustenance and love. Life is justice--the striving for justice. For some in Canada, however, life means profits, and profits mean

FW New book on single mothers

1998-11-18 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:00:12 -0500 (EST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ow-watch-digest) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ow-watch-digest V1 #420 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > > >ow-watch-digest Friday, November 13 1998 Volume 01 : Number 42

FW Politics of hunger

1998-11-18 Thread S. Lerner
>LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - November 1998 > > The politics of hunger > > by IGNACIO RAMONET > > Now here's a statistic you might have missed. The total wealth of > the world's three richest individuals is greater than the > combined gross domestic product (1) of

FW Rachel #625: Sustainable Development, Part 2 + job notice(fwd)

1998-11-19 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:58:15 -0500 (EST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Rachel #625: Sustainable Development, Part 2 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Job Opening > >Environmental Research Foundation, publisher of Rachel's

FW Canadian officials duck UN ECOSOC questions in Geneva

1998-11-30 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 11:30:08 -0500 >From: Eric Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: s4p all lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Canadian officials duck UN ECOSOC questions in Geneva >MIME-Version: 1.0 >

FW MAI Public Hearings: British Columbia (fwd)

1998-10-01 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:15:17 -0300 (ADT) >From: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [socdev] MAI Public Hearings: British Columbia (fwd) >To: Canadian futures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Date: W

FW Monthly Reminder

1998-10-05 Thread S. Lerner
*FUTUREWORK LISTS MONTHLY REMINDER* FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, Education FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and technological change. Basic ch

Re. FW Unions and Technology (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:06:59 -0400 (EDT) >From: Hank Bromley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Precedence: bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re. Unions and Technology >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >A response from Frank Emspak that came directly to me, but which he has >agreed I should

FW Democracy UniversityVideo Series (fwd)

1998-10-12 Thread S. Lerner
An interesting effort to spread ideas, stimulate debat, circumvent the mass media Sally Sorry for the poor format. >Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:03:15 -0400 >>Date:Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:03:01 +0100 >From:Anna Weekes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fw: Chomsky in Canada/Harbury/Bonpane/

FW Food insecurity for profit (fwd)

1998-10-19 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:33:28 -0700 (PDT) >From: Richard Sclove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Precedence: bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: food insecurity for profit >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:55:25 -0400 >To

VPAC-INFO: Job seekers website for students and alumni

1998-10-20 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:41:29 -0400 (EDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Peggy Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list VPAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: VPAC-INFO: Job seekers website for students

FW: David Korten: Democracy for Sale (fwd)

1998-10-25 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:36:54 -0400 >From: Eric Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: s4p all lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: s4p-54: e--David Korten: Democracy for Sale >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: [E

FW: Public Lecture by James Laxer: The Undeclared War

1998-10-26 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:20:15 -0500 >From: Eric Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Public Lecture by James Laxer: The Undeclared War >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence:

FW Websites for Canadian social data

1998-09-17 Thread S. Lerner
These were passed along by the ow-watch list coordinator. Very useful. The first outlines the latest fed government responses to "child poverty". The second has multi links to social data sources. http://socialunion.gc.ca/menu_e.html http://www.comnet.ca/~gilseg/socu.htm

FW CONF: "THE NEXT WORKING CLASS: YOUNG WORKERS AND PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT" Nov 14-14, Toronto (fwd)

1998-09-17 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:16:47 -0300 (ADT) >From: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: CONF: "THE NEXT WORKING CLASS: YOUNG WORKERS AND PRECARIOUS >EMPLOYMENT" Nov 14-14, Toronto (fwd) >To: Canadian futures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTEC

FW MAI again

1998-09-18 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:54:32 -0400 From:Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MAI returns to centre stage MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Guardian (London) September 10, 1998 M

Temp Worker Bill (US) (fwd)

1998-09-29 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:52:33 -0700 From:Tom Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: US temp worker bill (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" (forwarded -tp) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT - permatemps Hi all, There's only about a million search engin

Letter in Support of Social Security (U.S.) (fwd)

1998-09-30 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:31:43 -0700 (PDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: John Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Letter in Support of Social Security >X-Comment:

FW-L Film:THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS (fwd)

1997-08-27 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:52:19 -0700 (PDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Labor Research and Action Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS (fwd) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Sender: [EM

FW-L Feedback wanted (fwd)

1997-08-27 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:06:29 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Art Shostak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Labor Research and Action Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: F.Y.I. >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Brothers and Sisters:

FW-L Special Edition of Monthly Review on Labor (fwd)

1997-08-27 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:15:11 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Special Edition of Monthly Review on Labor >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For anyone who may have missed the anno

Majordomo results: test

1997-08-27 Thread S. Lerner
A NEW ADDRESS FOR THE FW LISTS. Let us know if you have any problems with this new address. Sally >-- > > info futurework >* ANNOUNCEMENT * > > > FUTUREWORK: RE-DESIGNING WORK,INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION > >[Two lists: FUTUREWORK (unmoderated) and FW-L (moderated)] > > >FUTURE

FW [ATTAC] CONFERENCE OF WORKERS IN DEFENCE OF TRADE UNIONINDEPENDENCE AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS (fwd)

1999-02-16 Thread S. Lerner
>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:48:25 +0100 >X-Authentication-Warning: emiliano.ras.eu.org: uucp set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f >From: "SAND IN THE WHEEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "ATTAC LISTE EN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:09:25 +01

MONTHLY REMINDER - PLEASE SAVE THIS

1998-08-04 Thread S. Lerner
*FUTUREWORK LISTS MONTHLY REMINDER* FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, Education FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and technological change. Basic ch

FW Your ideas for the FW WWW site

1998-08-04 Thread S. Lerner
Thanks to all of you who have sent along ideas for the WWW site. Rather than post them to the list as we get them, we thought we would wait until there was a basketful, then post them for comment, in another week, say. Sally

FW Strike watch website (fwd)

1998-08-06 Thread S. Lerner
Find out about the latest strikes in Alberta And Across Canada at: The Alberta Strike Solidarity Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/cargill.html

FW The situation at Maple Leaf (fwd)

1998-08-06 Thread S. Lerner
Wednesday 5 August 1998 1 in 4 Maple Leaf workers took money and ran Craig Sumi The Spectator Hamilton/Burlington Roughly one in four employees at Maple Leaf Foods has left the company since the 15-week strike last winter. Maple Leaf executive vice-president Pat Jones said more than 100 of the

FW Labour news website

1998-08-06 Thread S. Lerner
Get Updated Labour News >From Alberta: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/alberta.html Leave a message about Labour issues in your area on our message board And Across Canada: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/canada.html Leave a message about Labour issues in your area on our me

FW Some interesting ideas from a Labour-L post (fwd)

1998-08-06 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:43:04 -0400 From:Paul Riesz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: EMPLOYERS vs. UNIONS: are their interests irreconcilable? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In a recent discussion via Internet a partisan of laissez faire economics has asserted,

FW Focus on the Corporation List

1998-08-07 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:19:35 -0400 (EDT) > >LISTSERVE ANNOUNCEMENT: FOCUS ON THE CORPORATION > >Corp-Focus is a moderated listserve which distributes the weekly column >"Focus on the Corporation," co-authored by Russell Mokhiber, editor of >Corporate Crime Reporter, and Robert Weissman, editor

FW The IMF Corporate Welfare Machine (fwd)

1998-08-07 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:37:15 -0400 (EDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: The IMF Corporate Welfare Machin

FW Legal immigration and the US workforce (fwd)

1998-08-12 Thread S. Lerner
[The MoJo Wire] Hiring From Within High rates of legal immigration provide cheap, nonunion labor for big business, a steady stream of domestic servants for the overclass, and lower wages for American

FW Industrialized white collar work (fwd)

1998-08-12 Thread S. Lerner
I suspect the sender would welcome comment from FWers as well. Sally Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 09:44:48 -0400 Commercial 'Globalization' -- the acceleration of world integration following the end of the cold war and the resulting moderation of barriers to the movement of capital -- has produced

Excerpts from The Jobs Letter (with permission)

1998-08-14 Thread S. Lerner
KRUGMAN IN NZ * With much of our worsening unemployment being blamed on "the Asian crisis", it is interesting to see Auckland University hosting the MIT economist professor Paul Krugman for a series of lectures. Krugman is noteworthy for his predictions, made three years ago, of the problems

FW A Tale of Two Mainers (fwd)

1998-08-16 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:03:17 -0400 (EDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: A Tale of Two Mainers >MIME-Ver

[FW Internet and Politics Conference - Finland Jan 99 (fwd)

1998-08-17 Thread S. Lerner
>Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:58:37 -0700 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service >(RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the >From: field below. You are welcome to send the me

FW Workfare )fwd)

1998-08-17 Thread S. Lerner
-- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:47:02 -0400 I recently received some information from a union that is attempting to negotiate the following letter of agreements with their employer groups.(I am not sure if this is public informatio

FW Instead of workfare

1998-08-21 Thread S. Lerner
I've sent the message below to a list that monitors Ontario Works (a workfare program). Comments from FWers would also be welcome.Sally To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "S. Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Making work available Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: I'd be int

FW Demodernizing of Russia (fwd)

1998-08-24 Thread S. Lerner
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 08:17:46 +0100 >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Demodernizing of Russia (fwd) >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >I refer to eva Durant's message regarding added-value tax in Russia: > >>VAT

FW Help wanted - jobs (fwd)

1998-08-25 Thread S. Lerner
Please post & circulate (8/23/98) HOTEL WORKERS UNION SEEKS RESEARCHERS FOR EXCITING CAMPAIGNS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) is recruiting full-time research staff for its fast-growing Research Department. Positions are currently

FW Environmental Trends

1998-08-27 Thread S. Lerner
Why we can't "grow" our way out of the unemployment dilemma, at least under existing economic systems and industrial regimes. Sally >Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:41:07 +0100 ===Electronic Edition >>.

FW Monthly Reminder

1998-07-06 Thread S. Lerner
>> *FUTUREWORK LISTS MONTHLY REMINDER* >> >>FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, >>Education >> >>FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to >>deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and >>technologi

FW A voice from China

1998-07-07 Thread S. Lerner
-- Date:Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:04:42 +0800 From:chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Raise the living standards of poor people MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What should we do to raise the living standards

FW Workers' strike in Puerto Rica

1998-07-07 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:32:45 +0100 From:Jordi Martorell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Puerto Rico General Strike Info MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Puerto Rico General Strike Info Sent:6/7/1998 7:29 am Received:6/7/1998 2:20 pm From:Cesar

FW Impact of workfare on the labour market (fwd)

1998-07-08 Thread S. Lerner
>From: "Andrew Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OW-WATCH-L Impact of workfare on the labour market >Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:27:16 -0700 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTE

FW Milwaukee meeting on welfaer/workfare

1998-07-08 Thread S. Lerner
ATTENTION WELFARE/WORKFARE RIGHTS >> ORGANIZERS AND LEADERS: >> >> ACORN invites you to participate in a National OrganizersU >> Summit on Welfare Reform this summer in Milwaukee, >> from July 25-27. >> >> ACORN, joined by labor unions, religious organizations, >> and national political leaders, i

FW Private sector workfare announcement (fwd)

1998-07-12 Thread S. Lerner
>X-BlackMail: cro.on.ca, workstation-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 209.82.39.72 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 09:37:49(EDT) on July 10, 1998 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:30:55 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: OW-WATCH-L Private sector w

FW OW-WATCH-L What's in a name? (fwd)

1998-07-12 Thread S. Lerner
>X-BlackMail: cro.on.ca, workstation-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 209.82.39.72 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 12:15:44(EDT) on July 10, 1998 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:09:16 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: OW-WATCH-L NY news >Mime-Ve

Re:FW OW-WATCH-L NY news (fwd)

1998-07-12 Thread S. Lerner
The material that's coming to us through the "Ontario Works" Watch list seems valuable in that it provides a look at workfare in action in Canada. If you want to reply to this post, please do so to the sender (comfy - see below). Sally >Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:34:32 -0400 >From: comfy <[EM

FW Info re help for low-income women (fwd)

1998-07-12 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:25:25 -0400 From:Terra Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Great idea, great site: WOW I though you might be interested The Workplace Solutions ( http://www.WorkplaceSolutions.org ) project provides information and assistance to women and employers to increase

FW Interesting new book: Global Destinies, Regional Choices

1998-07-14 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:54:21 -0400 >From: Island Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Eco-Compass, 7/13/98--Global Destinies, Regional Choices >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Which World ? : Scenarios for the

FW More on Milwaukee Welfare/Workfare Summit (fwd)

1998-07-14 Thread S. Lerner
ATTENTION WELFARE/WORKFARE RIGHTS > > ORGANIZERS AND LEADERS: > > > > ACORN invites you to participate in a National Organizers' > > Summit on Welfare Reform this summer in Milwaukee, > > from July 25-27. > > > > ACORN, joined by labor unions, religious organizations, > > and national political l

FW Technology/Social Change:Effects on Family/ Community (fwd) -long

1998-07-15 Thread S. Lerner
>Resent-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:27:20 -0700 (PDT) >From: Phil Agre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Technology and Social Change: The Effects on Family and Community >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.ht

FW Your "wish list" for the Futurework website?

1998-07-15 Thread S. Lerner
The FW Website is now functioning (and the archives *will* be searchable soon!) Visit it at: http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/Research/FW What links and other materials would you FWers like to have on the FW Website? Please let me know. We're aiming for a 'one-stop' website for everyone interested

FW OFL and Workfare (fwd)

1998-07-16 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:10:04 -0400 >From: Marc Collister and Lianne Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OW-WATCH-L OFL and Workfare >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: (Name WithHeld) > >

FW CCPA Summer Book Sale

1998-07-17 Thread S. Lerner
Of possible interest because of the relevant titles. Sally >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:17:42 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: ccpa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: CCPA Summer Book Sale > >CCPA Summer Book Sale! > >For a limited time--till the end o

FW Excerpts from The Jobs Letter No. 82 (July 17, 1998)- withpermission

1998-07-17 Thread S. Lerner
KEITH RANKIN ON THE COMMUNITY WAGE *Economist Keith Rankin in recent months has been challenging 'the Left' in NZ to look again at the current debate on the Community wage and consider other options to treating the proposal with cynicism and threats of non-compliance. He believes the Communit

FW In case you missed this: Big Apple has little mercy for sickwomen on welfare (fwd)

1998-07-20 Thread S. Lerner
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 11:22:17 -0700 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Graeme Bacque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: (Name WithHeld) > >July 19, 1998 >Big Apple has little mercy for sick women on welfare > >New York City's most vulnerable feel the might of the may

FW The new world of "flexible" employment (fwd)

1998-06-05 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:31:54 -0400 From:Tom Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Era of European Contingent Labor(fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- June 4, 1998 Europe Firms Lift Unemployment By Layi

FW Hi-Tech Health Hazards Alert (fwd)

1998-06-05 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Fri, 29 May 1998 15:56:15 -0700 From:"Camp. for Responsible Technology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SCOTLAND: URGENT ACTION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain apologies for multiple postings URGENT SIGN-ON FROM SCOTLAND TO CALL ATTENTION TO HEALTH HAZARDS AT NATIONAL SEMI

FW More on workfare (fwd)

1998-06-05 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:44:17 -0400 From:Paul Riess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: COMMENTS ON THE WISCONSIN PROGRAM FOR ELIMINATING WELFARE. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The posting by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the subject is absolutely condemning this project

FW Perverse subsidies

1998-06-07 Thread S. Lerner
Forwarded message: The IISD (Winnipeg) mentioned in this piece is at URL: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/ It may even be that the document quoted is to be found there. MichaelP Has the world gone mad? Subsidies to the tune of trillions of dollars allow industries t

FW TOBIN TAX MOTION SUCCEEDS IN CANADA'S PARLIAMENT

1999-03-24 Thread S. Lerner
>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:56:58 +0100 >X-Authentication-Warning: emiliano.ras.eu.org: uucp set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:46:22 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Blaise Salmon <[EMAIL PROTE

Feature from The Jobs Letter No 97 ( 25 March 1999) Sean Bevin o

1999-03-25 Thread S. Lerner
>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, 25 Mar 1999 11:14:48 + >X-Distribution: M

FW [RRE]news from Belgrade (fwd)

1999-03-26 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:41:19 -0800 (PST) >From: Phil Agre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[The following is a letter from Belgrade by a friend of a friend >who is there conducting research for his doctoral dissertation in >history at Stanford. It is forwarded with permission. If anyone >has other rep

FW Excerpts from The Jobs Letter No 97 (26 March 1999)

1999-03-26 Thread S. Lerner
By permission to Futurework - see subscription info at the end >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 PROTE

Switching the list to Waterloo - TEST MESSAGE

1997-08-26 Thread S. Lerner
Please ignore this message - we are just testing.

changing list to waterloo - TEST #2

1997-08-26 Thread S. Lerner
Please ignore again ... just testing ...

FW, FW-L Part Timers - Query

1997-09-01 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:36:43 -0700 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: "Ms. Aikya Param" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Labor Research and Action Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Part Timers >X-To: "'Labor Research and Action Project'" <[EMAIL PROTE

Web site for MAI updates

1997-09-04 Thread S. Lerner
Get the latest information of the MAI at http://www.citizen.org/gtw/mai.html This is one section of the excellent Public Citizen website at www.citizen.org Sally

FW/FW-L IMPORTANT LIST NOTICE! PLEASE READ

1997-09-05 Thread S. Lerner
Dear FWers - Due to problems in coming to peace and rapport with the new listserv (Majordomo) here at Wateroo, we ask that you NOT POST to either list until you receive further notice, which will be early in the week of Sept. 22. All that free time (for posters *and* lurkers) should lead to a bu

FW/FW-L Welcome! LISTS OPEN FOR POSTING

1997-09-26 Thread S. Lerner
WELCOME BACK FWers The Futurework lists (Futurework [FW] and FW-L) are now located at the University of Waterloo and ready for subscribers to once again post messages. We are still figuring out how our new server here, majordomo, can set your mail "digest" and "postpon

Information site on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment

1997-10-02 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:50:36 -0700 (PDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: "National Centre for Sustainability (Yves Bajard)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Deep Sustainability <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Information site on the Multilateral Agreement

FW/FW-L

1997-10-03 Thread S. Lerner
Hi, FWers - Now that we're getting the lists settled down at our new server - [EMAIL PROTECTED],ca - here's a reminder that will make the lists work more smoothly: Please put FW or FW-L on the subject line in front of your subject heading. This is particularly useful for people who don't get the

FW-L/FW A new book on Mondragon

1997-10-10 Thread S. Lerner
>FROM MONDRAGON - TO AMERICA: >EXPERIMENTS IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT > >DATA AND REFLECTIONS FROM FORTHCOMING BOOKbyGreg MacLeod >tel 902-562-242 >Fax 567-0153 > [EMAIL PROTE

FW/FW-L Query re Mondragon

1997-10-12 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:10:04 -0400 (EDT) >X-Warning: URIACC.URI.EDU says host *unknown [131.128.2.174] claimed to be >uriacc.uri.edu >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Lerner) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ric mcintyre) >Subject: R

FW Please use the FW and FW-L identifiers on subject line

1997-10-12 Thread S. Lerner
Please do use the identifiers at the beginning of the subject line when you post. Also, can anyone explain to me why the posting re Jesse Helms were relevant to FW. I am open to instruction. Sally Lerner

FW Re 10 Principles of Accountability

1997-10-14 Thread S. Lerner
Thanks to Tom Lunde for his thoughtful commentary on the "10 Principles" document(s).. Just for the record, I did not change or add any wording to what I forwarded. I simply posted what I came across. No doubt dropped headers led many of us off the track as to who actually wrote what in the fir

FW/FW-L Registration for Toronto conference (fwd)

1997-10-15 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:58:47 -0300 (ADT) >From: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Registration for Toronto conference (fwd) >To: Canadian futures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- Forwa

FW-L Chossudovsky paper:The Global Financial Crisis (fwd)

1997-10-23 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:59:03 -0700 (PDT) >From: Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "S. Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Chossudovsky paper >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >Did this interesting document reach me through FW? > >If not, you might wa

FW/FW-L Trends in Corporate Accountability (fwd)

1997-10-24 Thread S. Lerner
Yet another excellent piece from Peter Montague...How might citizens in the US, Canada and elsewhere oppose trends described here that they don't like? Any ideas? Sally >X-Authentication-Warning: clarknet.clark.net: Urachel set sender to >rachel!rachel.clark.net!peter using -f >>Received: by

FW-L New EPI Reports; Comment on Billionaires/Poverty

1997-08-28 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: New EPI Reports; Comment on Billionaires/Poverty >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >EPI in collaboration with the Women's

Time to Organize!!!!

1997-09-02 Thread S. Lerner
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:43:50 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Time to Organize >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >August 28, 1997 2:32 AM EDT > >Business Week, September 01, 1

FW German unions demand creation of new jobs through reductionof overtime

1999-02-22 Thread S. Lerner

The Jobs Letter No.67 (1st October 1997)

1997-10-29 Thread S. Lerner
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Employment on the Internet Hot-Links (from the Jobs Letter No.

1997-10-29 Thread S. Lerner
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The Jobs Letter No.67 (1st October 1997)

1997-10-29 Thread S. Lerner
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