http://www.worldpolicy.org/americas/carib/cuba97.html
(How Washington unintentionally helps sustain autocratic rule in Cuba.
A leftist caudillos police state)
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/mea-cuba.cabrera.html
Mea Cuba, by
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Farrar Straus Giroux
503 pp. $23.00
Review by
Gould is not the last word on the role of contingency in evolution.
As I read once in the
New York Times, there is a new book, The Crucible of Creation, by C.
Morris, which argues that animals in different continents have
followed parallel paths in their evolution. This is a direct
challenge
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news
release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm.
I welcome discussion as to what it all means.
Doug
Doug,
From the BLS release it looks like contingency means a worker thinks the
situation will end w/in a year. The release says the proportion of
"alternative work arrangement" workers (contractors, temps, on-call,
workers provided by contract agencies) in the tota workforce has remaine
Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news
release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm.
I welcome discussion as to what it all means.
Doug
Technical information: (202) 606-6378 USDL
shift" and the
"entrepreneurial new economy". Contingency is *not* a new reality, but is
itself contingent on high unemployment. As unemployment comes down,
employers see employees as less expendable and absorb contingent workers
into permanent positions. Obviously, the turnover in contingent jobs and the
w
