The world of work is undergoing a major process of change. In order to understand and to respond effectively to these new challenges the International Labour Organization has launched a "Future of Work initiative" in order to be able to advance its mandate for social justice.
The European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe (the EuroMemo Group) is a network of European economists committed to promoting full employment with good work, social justice with an eradication of poverty and social exclusion, ecological sustainability, and international solidarity.
On Friday Barack Obama will talk about the future of the NSA. He will have to restore public trust in government. But what will happen if he fails? (by Shoshana Zuboff)
This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is wholly dedicated to the question of the minimum wage, a matter that has gained in importance and profile in recent years. No doubt, the main reasons behind this rise in prominence relate to the stagnation of wages in several parts of the world, a generalized increase in earnings inequality as well as the rise in social unrest across the globe.
What the European democracy needs is a real tax revolution, a kind of New Deal or a Marshall Plan, something like a social movement and maybe a step aside from the structures that were designed to exclude it. (By Etienne Balibar)
he new French President, François Hollande, has kept his election campaign promise to host a special conference bringing together government representatives and social partners to define the incoming government’s social policy. The conference, held on 9 and 10 July 2012, debated a wide range of subjects including the creation of jobs for young people, training and development, initiatives for ensuring fairer pay, and the reform of pensions and the social security system.
Los de arriba pretenden que nos creamos que es normal que el 1% de la población posea el 43% de la riqueza mundial. Que asumamos que otro mundo no es posible. (por Olga Rodríguez)
The decisions taken at the so-called 'historical' summit on Friday risks to plunge Europe in a Japanese-like recession which is going to have devastating consequences on European social model, writes Pervenche Bères, chairwoman of the European Parliament employment and social affairs committee.
Our leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. (By Warren E. Buffet)
A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong.For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It will damage an already depressed economy; it will probably make America’s long-run deficit problem worse, not better; and most important, by demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, it will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status. (By Paul Krugman)
Der Präsident unterschreibt mit dem sogenannten Kompromiss seine politische Kapitulation vor der amerikanischen Rechten. Die populistische Tea-Party-Bewegung führt ihn vor und besetzt die Steuerdebatte mit ihren Thesen. von Fabian Löhe, Berlin
Der Kompromiss im US-Schuldenstreit wird die ökonomische Krise in den USA verschärfen. Mit Ausgabenkürzungen allein ist die Misere nicht zu lösen, kommentiert F. Lindner.