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Updated
10/1/2003; 2:59:18 PM
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Friday, September 12, 2003 |
Conference on Work, Employment and Society
September 1-3, 2004
Manchester, England
This conference, like the journal it is associated with, provides a forum for the critical analysis of work and employment and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. Supported by the British Sociological Association, both the journal and the conference series are sociologically oriented but welcome contributions from many academic disciplines, including anthropology, labour economics, geography, history, industrial relations, management, organisational studies and politics.
Confirmed plenary speakers reinforce this wish for an inter-disciplinary dialogue. These are: Professor Jamie Peck, Departments of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Professor Paul Stewart, School of Human Resource Management, University of West of England; Dr Don Slater, Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and; Professor Judy Wajcman, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
At WES 2004 in Manchester we want to build on the debates from the last conference as well as introduce other areas of interest. This is reflected in the themes we have identified. We invite papers addressed to the following themes:
·Working conditions and health;
·Tackling inequalities in and beyond the workplace;
·Aesthetic and emotional labour;
·Skills;
·New organisational forms (e.g. public-private partnerships, multi-employer workplaces);
·Working Identities;
·Collective organisation, resistance and misbehaviour;
·Third sector and informal forms of work
·Re-regulating the labour market
For further information about: abstract submissions, the conference, plenary speakers, the venue, the cost and the city visit the conference website: http://www.umist.ac.uk/wes2004
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New book on corporate control in the United States
"Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy," by Ted Nace. Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003.
Author's talk at San Francisco Bay Area Bookstores:
Black Oak (1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley ) Monday, September 15 - 7:30 pm
Modern Times (888 Valencia St., San Francisco) Tuesday, September 16 - 7:30 pm
". . .an acute analysis of how the legal system became more and more a protector of corporate interests over human rights." -- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
Source: UC Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations Library
12:16:19 PM
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SB2 costs would be minimal, study finds
Contra Costa Times
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/6744652.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
By Janet Adamy, Contra Costa Times
September 11, 2003
Many California businesses support the idea of giving all workers health care coverage and face minimal increases in costs to provide it, according to a UC Berkeley study released Wednesday.The findings lend support to SB2, the landmark health coverage bill that would insure more than 1 million of the state's workers who now do not receive health-care coverage. The bill could move to the state Senate and Assembly floors as early as tonight....
The study by the SCHOOL'S INSTITUTE FOR LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT also found that 90 percent of firms that don't offer health benefits operate in markets in which their competitors also do not provide such benefits. A key argument from the bill's opponents -- which include business advocates -- is that the bill would put the firms at a competitive disadvantage. The study estimates it would cost businesses about $1,343 per newly insured worker per year to provide the coverage. Under the bill, companies would cover 80 percent of health care costs....
"That operating cost is not affected by a very large amount by extending coverage," said ARINDRAJIT DUBE, A POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW AT UC BERKELEY WHO CO-AUTHORED THE STUDY....
Source: UC Berkeley in the News
12:14:36 PM
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Auto workers face fierce battle to save free health care, fend off plant closings
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/10/financial0236EDT0016.DTL&;type=printable
John Porretto, AP Auto Writer
September 10, 2003
Detroit (AP) -- With Big Three automakers' U.S. market share at its lowest level ever recently and profits hurt by generous incentives, auto workers are in a weak position to save two key elements of their contracts: nearly free health care and a ban on plant closings.
Industry analysts say the ban is likely to fall victim in talks to replace labor contracts that expire midnight Sunday....
"The end of a contract historically has been a point of adjustment to capacity, the economic situation, where things are going for the future," said HARLEY SHAIKEN, A PROFESSOR AND LABOR EXPERT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. "Ron Gettelfinger drew the line in the sand on health care, so that deflects the pressure somewhere else. Clearly, capacity is going to be one of the areas to feel the heat."...
Source: UC Berkeley in the News
12:14:00 PM
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Lincoln Cushing
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