Employment and concepts of work in the new global economy.(Statistical...

International Labour Review;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......what is in prospect for the conventional world of work; and (b) if the indications are that human labour...are the implications for contemporary concepts of work -- the accumulated baggage of work-related beliefs? The inquiry is necessarily speculative...

Women, gender and work: What is equality and how do we get there.(Review)

International Labour Review;  March 22, 2001 ;     598 words ...Women, gender and work: What is equality...including the place of work in life as a whole...the International Labour Review and editor of this...values: the value of work in today's world...is no easy task. Labour statistics can be...sex, or part-time work? Are women ...

Work and training: a blurring of the edges.(Special Issue: Perspectives on...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Getting a perspective on work is like trying to focus on a moving target, for the obvious reasons that no one can tell where the notion of work begins and ends, and that the nature of work itself is constantly evolving. Training is a crucial...

New perspectives on work as value.(Special Issue: Perspectives on the...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Developing perspectives on work calls for an understanding of how work came to play the all-important role it has in society...needs to be done is to lay bare the rationale whereby work - a historically determined construct if ever there was...

Work and usefulness to the world.(Special Issue: Perspectives on the...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......below, analysis of the transformations of work from a historical perspective shows that...form a clear picture of the place that work has occupied and occupies today in society...deterioration in conditions of employment. Work from a position of total dependence Work...

Violence at Work.(New ILO publications)(Brief article)(Book review)

International Labour Review;  September 22, 2006 ;     64 words ...Violence at work. By Duncan CAMPBELL and Vittorio DI MARTINO. Geneva, 2006. Third edition. 360 pp. Bibliography...originally published in 1998. For a presentation of the first edition, see the International Labour Review, Vol. 137 (1998). No. 3, pp. 434-435.

Decline and resurgence of unremunerated work.(Special Issue: Perspectives...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......opposition between remunerated and unremunerated work, a few definitions need to be specified. Firstly, the notion of work itself. This certainly encompasses the...services in a mercantile society, where work is a means of increasing the community...

By way of conclusion: labour law and employment transitions.(Special...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......has also been a recognition in law of the work undertaken within the family, in its broad...increasingly being taken, upsetting established work patterns. The full recognition of employees...debates about the nature and future of work. But first one must separate the history...

Post-industrial society and economic security.(Special Issue: Perspectives...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...It is too easily forgotten why work, rather than being something people are...revolution which brought awareness that work could be more than a means of survival...progress, itself the fruit of human labour, work has become a factor of progress and change...

Time for equality at work.(Book Review)

International Labour Review;  September 22, 2003 ;     285 words ...Time for equality at work. Global Report under the Follow-up to the...on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. International Labour Conference, 91st...on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines the diverse forms of discrimination...

Work and identity in India.(Special Issue: Perspectives on the Nature and...

International Labour Review;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...To generalize about work in India is virtually impossible. But it...define, or even touch upon, all the forms of work found in India, but at least certain leads...points In many respects the foundations of work as it exists in India today were laid during...

Making It Work: How Three CAs Approach the Work/Life Challenge

Beyond Numbers;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......finding or maintaining a sense of balance between our work and our lives outside of work. For some CAs, especially many younger CAs, it's...family; for others, it's more a question of juggling work with parenting and/or elder-care responsibilities...

Changing Patterns in the World of Work.(New ILO publications)(Brief...

International Labour Review;  September 22, 2006 ;     274 words ...Changing patterns in the world of work. Report of the Director-General, International...92-2-116623-6. ISSN 0074-6681. As we all know, work is central to our lives: it gives us a...providing an income to meet our material needs. Work is one of the main ways we relate to others...

More training, less security? Training and the quality of life at work in...

International Labour Review;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......impact of training on the quality of life at work, of which security is a major aspect. It...consideration when assessing the quality of life at work is the interaction between objective and...of the quality of life at their place of work. There is a tendency to see that interaction...

The economics of work and family.(Kids at Work: The Value of...

International Labour Review;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The economics of work and family. Edited by Jean KIMMEL and Emily...Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-88099-245-X. Kids at work: The value of employer sponsored on-site...Fighting for time: Shifting boundaries of work and social life. Edited by Cynthia FUCHS...