Schoolchildren working illegally.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  March 28, 2001 ;     245 words ......half-a-million schoolchildren are working illegally, often playing truant to do paid work, a new report revealed today. A third of those working unlawfully were aged 13, with...admitted they played truant to do paid work, with boys more likely to...delivering newspapers or ...

Working mums homesick - study

Sunday Star-Times;  April 23, 2006 ;     523 words ......Many mothers who were working, and many fathers, preferred...he said. But whether working or at home, all parents...both parents to be in paid work. "We thought we might...an acceptance of long working hours, weekend work and...mother and father were working fulltime. But in the ...

'I'm happy to have paid work at the Fringe, but I would've volunteered to...

The Sunday Herald;  July 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh this week. I'll be working 48 hours, six days a week, in eight-hour shifts. The...making sure everyone is going to the right show. I'll be working on a rota, with shifts starting and finishing anywhere between 10am and 5am. I'll be paid the minimum wage, but there's always ...

Economics: The way we live now: working all hours, just like Trollope

The Independent on Sunday;  December 11, 2005 ;     366 words ......harder you work. So working hard is associated with...spend their day, both in paid work and in unpaid activities...is that while time in paid work has declined, there...point is that we are working more intensively; we...have increased their paid- work time, vis--vis ...

New working class

Sunday Star-Times;  July 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the lives of children in paid work. It found at least one child in eight was working for about 2 1/2 hours a day...money or the buying power paid employment gave them, while...concerned about how much paid work students were doing, particularly...Taylor said some students were ...

WORKING

The Washington Post;  August 28, 2007 ;     164 words ......24-year-olds looking for a job or in paid work -- fell to 65 percent in...percent of young men were working or seeking jobs. That's down...16- to 24-year-olds were working, compared with 63 percent of all Americans of working age. -- Vickie Elmer

UK GOVERNMENT: Ground-breaking pilot to help women balance family life and...

M2 Presswire;  March 31, 1999 ;     673 words ......family life and paid work (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...ways of improving working lives of millions...facing mothers in paid work. * Consider having...to offer flexible working hours or part-time hours to mothers in paid work with a pre-school...family friendly ...

Single parents and paid work.

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......partnered motherhood, and paid work (Swain & Howe 1995: 198...successfully combining caring and working, the sole parent family still...are effective in resulting in paid work, single mothers will happily...option' of most Australians. If working is chosen then part-time work...

U.S.: MORE OLDER WOMEN STAYING IN PAID WORK FORCE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......expanded their presence in the paid work force. More and more women are staying in the paid work force after they reach the...women in this age bracket were working. As of last month, that figure...that many older women are working because they are under fairly...pressing," he says, ...

More than just another obstacle: health, domestic purposes beneficiaries,...

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......ability of beneficiaries to seek and retain paid work. The research material is derived from...poor health on seeking and retaining paid work. Health-related concerns are perceived...is more than just another obstacle to paid work. Poor health actually compounds their...

Fed:Men must do more housework so women can get paid work:Goward

AAP General News (Australia);  June 22, 2005 ;     147 words ......06-22-2005 Fed:Men must do more housework so women can get paid work:Goward Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner PRU GOWARD says...despite the fact that women now make up almost 45 per cent of the paid work force. Ms GOWARD says the issue of unpaid work, which includes...

MPs urge limit on students' paid work.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  March 23, 2001 ;     169 words ......found a direct link between students working longer - up to 16 hours and more - and...recommending that colleges should limit paid work, MPs acknowledged that many students...contributed to dropout rates. Reducing hours of paid work may be self-defeating unless access to...

MPs urge limit on students' paid work

Evening Standard - London;  March 23, 2001 ;     169 words ......found a direct link between students working longer - up to 16 hours and more - and...recommending that colleges should limit paid work, MPs acknowledged that many students...contributed to dropout rates. Reducing hours of paid work "may be self-defeating unless access...

Working Mothers in Europe: A Comparison Of Policies and Practices.(Book...

Labour & Industry;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......sterling] (hardcover). Working Mothers in Europe...use to combine paid work with family care...research network 'Working and Mothering...use to combine paid work with childcare...of social change working mothers are forced...strategies' to combine paid work and ...

Gender, time and inequality: trends in women's and men's paid work, unpaid...

Social Forces;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......proportion of their prime working years caring for small children...acceptance of married women working for pay and substantial involvement...doing less unpaid and more paid work (Gershuny and Robinson 1988...while women have increased paid work time substantially, meaning...women's ...