As the price of fuel continues to skyrocket, there's a workplace trend afoot to shortening workweeks to save energy. In Utah, administrative offices will be closed on Fridays while hours will be extended Monday through Thursday. Birmingham, Ala. implemented a truncated schedule for city employees on July 1, and officials...
Stephanie Angers et Gerard Fabre. Echanges intellectuels entre la France et le Quebec, 1930-2000. Les reseaux de la revue Esprit avec La Releve, Cite libre, Parti pris et Possibles, Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004, 248 p. 30 $ ...
Abstract : This article focuses on the involvement of Catholic clergy and laity in Quebec's student film society movement of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Film societies emerged within the Quebec church at this time in order to address young people's lack ...
Books/Livres Angenot, Marc. Rhetorique de l'anti-socialisme. Essai d'histoire diseursive 1830-1917. Ste-Foy, les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004, 288 p. --. Le marxisme dans les grands recits. Essai d'analyse du discours. Ste-Foy, les Presses de l'Universite Laval,...
The passage of the Work Choices Act 2005 serves to eliminate one of the last symbols of fairness in Australian society; the judicially-determined conciliation and arbitration system and wage-setting machinery. In this paper we examine the flawed conceptual framework, which underpins the Government's view that reducing the rights and protections...
This paper examines the sentencing of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth under the Young Offenders Act, using youth court data from five major cities in Canada. Three separate sentencing decisions are examined using logistic and multiple regression analyses: (1) the imposition of a custodial sentence versus a non-custodial...
Claude Debussy. Rodrigue et Chimene. Edition de Richard Langham Smith. (OEuvres completes, ser. 6: OEuvres lyriques, vol. 1.) (Musica Gallica.) Paris: Durand, c2003. [Gen. pref. in Fr., Eng., p. ix; foreword, p. xi-xxx; selective bibliography, p. xxxi; characters, libretto, p. xxxii-lxxi; score, 250...
The technology-productivity puzzle has generated a rancorous debate in economics. Many labor economists claim that computer-related investments have led to structural gains in productivity. Others are skeptical that such high-tech investments are behind recent surges in labor productivity. They argue that the relative increase in productivity growth rates since the...
Arthur F. Eggert Sr. of Mundelein A Mass of Christian Burial for Mr. Arthur F. Eggert Sr., 77, will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, at St. Mary of Vernon Church, 236 Route 45, Indian Creek. Interment will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, River...
Arthur F. Eggert Sr. of Mundelein A Mass of Christian Burial for Mr. Arthur F. Eggert Sr., 77, will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, at St. Mary of Vernon Church, 236 Route 45, Indian Creek. Interment will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, River...
(Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere, Economia, Diritto LED, 2001), 208 pp. ISBN 88-7916-152-0. Eur. 18.59. La citation dantesque (Purgatoire, XXVI.118), qui offre son titre a ce volume, est significative. On sait, en effet, que la production litteraire gallo-romane a ete...
If workers work shorter hours, will they work harder? This author thinks a shorter workweek will lead to higher productivity. Before the emergence and widespread acceptance of the efficiency-wage hypothesis, it was believed that increased productivity led to dividends being paid to workers in two basic forms: higher...
En 1945, les forces armees americaines qui occupent le Japon lui impose la democratie suite a sa defaite lors de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale. Ce nouveau regime s'impregne lentement dans un pays qui n'avait connu jusque-la qu'un systeme social autoritaire. En art,...
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