Posted on 20 October 2011. Tags: "Free Market", Class Warfare, Credit Suisse, Greed, Jobs, Occupy Wall Street, The Rich, wealth, work
You want a reason for the uprisings in Greece, where workers are on strike to protest the brutal austerity measures, or OccupyWallStreet or the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia fanned by the deep unemployment? Or are you looking for a reason people don’t believe the economy is getting better even when "growth" seems to […]
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Posted on 08 December 2009. Tags: ILO, Labor, work
An interesting report came into my email box this morning from the good folks at the International Labor Organization. The World of Work Report is an annual study by the ILO Institute, which provides an assessment of the current state of labour markets. Among its findings: Based on the latest IMF growth estimates, […]
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Posted on 05 September 2007. Tags: Employment, ILO, Productivity, work
A few days ago, I got a copy of a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) that looks at some global employment trends. The report has got some good data–but, memo to the folks at the ILO, it is really written way too boringly (spice it up!!!). Do you want people to read […]
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