Labor Contract Law of the People\u27s Republic of China - Unofficial English Translation

The Dong Bao Hua Legal Center at East China University of Politics and Law and Ashley Russell (M.R.P. Cornell University), with review and advice from Pan Shih-wei of Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, have produced an English translation of China\u27s recently passed Labor Contract Law. Our thanks to Dr. Michael H. Belzer, Wayne State University, for providing us with this copy

Women and the Economy 2010: 25 Years of Progress But Challenges Remain

[Excerpt] This report, which includes annual data from 1984 through 2009, provides a comprehensive overview of women’s economic progress over the last twenty-five years and highlights the additional work left to be done. The role of women in the American economy is of indisputable importance. The future of the American economy depends on women’s work, both inside and outside the home

Addressing Long-Term Unemployment After The Great Recession: The Crucial Role Of Workforce Training

[Excerpt] With almost five unemployed workers for every job opening, the economy is not yet creating enough jobs to make a significant reduction in unemployment. Yet employers report that they are having difficulty finding skilled workers for key positions, despite the high ratio of unemployed workers to job openings. Helping workers build new skills and search more effectively for positions that are a good match for their skillset can help to address the mismatch. But to address the high rate of long-term unemployment, this report finds that policymakers will need to simultaneously spur job creation while also investing in education and training programs that can prepare workers for new employment opportunities

Disability and Work: A Trade Union Guide to the Law and Good Practice

[Excerpt] This guide includes up-to-date case studies to show how the courts have interpreted the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), and recommendations of good practice in some of the major areas of working life where experience has shown that disabled people face the worst problems

An Economic, Political and Industrial Strategy for Labour

This policy document adopted by the Executive Council of the Canadian Labour Congress was ratified by the 12th Constitutional Convention held in Québec City, April 1978

UA12/2/22 Western Kentucky State Normal Commonwealth

Undated report of the WKU Moot Commonwealth Committee on Resolutions. Resolutions regarding transportation, economic development, alchohol and conservation

Influences on Maltese children’s food intake : proposing a ‘socio-ecological culture-cuisine food model’

The complexity of influences on children’s food choices is undisputed. It is an area which has often been researched through analysis of different factors ranging, for example, from gender to family socio-economic status, from individual food preferences to peer modelling, and from maternal prescriptions to school food and nutrition education. However, models which offer an integrated systematic representation of how these different factors work in determining a child’s food intake are scarce.peer-reviewe

Joint Resolution, American Indian Religious Freedom

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The primitivism debate and modern art

Supposedly ‘primitive’ works of art in their various forms always had a great appeal in Western culture. Since the eighteenth century (and also before) there has been a consistent tendency in European Art and Literature to attribute superior virtue to primitive people. In this paper I will introduce first the notion of primitivism and the theoretical aspects presented by two American scholars, Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas who became the pioneers of the history and theorisation of primitivism when they published their seminal work on Classical literature and philosophy, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity, (1935). I will also discuss the central question why modern artists turned to primitive art for inspiration. And I will be referring to the seminal work published by Robert Goldwater in 1938, Primitivism in Modern Art. Although Goldwater seemed to be more concerned with the thematic approach, he stressed a common characteristic of primitivism in modern art, namely the search for ‘simplicity’. The controversial exhibition, “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1984 helps us to understand better the difference between works created by the ‘primitives’ and the works made by modern artists within a different context. The ‘Primitive’ is not only found in modern art but also traced in other categories like the art of children, peasants, and the insane and even women.peer-reviewe

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The mixed empirical findings to date have indicated that some, but not all, unions in industrialized countries are actively involved in campaigning and bargaining around work–life balance (WLB) issues, as part of a modernization agenda linked to feminization and to ‘positive flexibility’. This article seeks to identify factors that might encourage or inhibit trade unions from involvement in WLB issues, within a cross-national comparative perspective focusing on two countries (France and the UK) that have contrasting working time regimes and approaches to WLB. It draws on original research carried out in two sectors — insurance and social work — in these two countries. The article links the emergence of union WLB programmes and bargaining agendas to genderequality concerns within the union and to the gender composition of the sector, as well as to the working time regime, including the mode of action, partnership being a significant corollary of WLB campaigning in the UK. We find support for the modernization thesis in the UK, particularly in the public sector, but within severe constraints defined by employer initiative