Communist
24th April 2009, 23:05
sent by socialist - economics
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http://demos.org/event_list.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9-3FF4-6C82-59E486000A340543
The Gloves-Off Economy
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM
220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York New York 10001
RSVP (http://demos.org/event_rsvp.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9%2D3FF4%2D6C 82%2D59E486000A340543)http://www.demos.org/events/gloves.jpg
Across the United States, increasing numbers of employers are breaking, bending, or evading long-established laws and standards designed to protect workers, from the minimum wage to job safety to the right to organize. This "gloves-off economy" is sending shock waves into every corner of the low-wage labor market. In the process, employers who play by the rules are under growing pressure to follow suit, intensifying the search for low-cost business strategies across a wide range of industries and ratcheting up into ever higher reaches of the labor market.
Demos (http://www.demos.org/) and The National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/) are proud to co-sponsor a forum with Annette Bernhardt, co-editor of The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market, and contributors Nik Theodore and David Weil. This book brings together economists, sociologists, labor attorneys, union strategists, and other experts to examine a range of gloves-off practices, the workers who are affected by them, and strategies for enforcing workplace standards. The authors offer varying perspectives on both the problem and the creative solutions currently being explored in a wide range of communities and industries. The Gloves-off Economy is a stirring call to renew worker protections in the twenty-first century.
To RSVP for this event, please contact Jinny Khanduja at 212.389.1399 or jkhandujaATdemos.org (http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/compose.mail?compose=1&.ob=f1be5703c47fac06026f8cb4acfcb8073831ab42&[email protected]&composecc=&subject=&body=), or click here (http://demos.org/event_rsvp.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9-3FF4-6C82-59E486000A340543).
Demos
220 Fifth Ave., 5th Flr. New York, NY 10001 | 212.633.1405 | infoATdemos.org (http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/compose.mail?compose=1&.ob=f1be5703c47fac06026f8cb4acfcb8073831ab42&[email protected]&composecc=&subject=&body=)
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http://demos.org/event_list.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9-3FF4-6C82-59E486000A340543
The Gloves-Off Economy
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM
220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York New York 10001
RSVP (http://demos.org/event_rsvp.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9%2D3FF4%2D6C 82%2D59E486000A340543)http://www.demos.org/events/gloves.jpg
Across the United States, increasing numbers of employers are breaking, bending, or evading long-established laws and standards designed to protect workers, from the minimum wage to job safety to the right to organize. This "gloves-off economy" is sending shock waves into every corner of the low-wage labor market. In the process, employers who play by the rules are under growing pressure to follow suit, intensifying the search for low-cost business strategies across a wide range of industries and ratcheting up into ever higher reaches of the labor market.
Demos (http://www.demos.org/) and The National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/) are proud to co-sponsor a forum with Annette Bernhardt, co-editor of The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market, and contributors Nik Theodore and David Weil. This book brings together economists, sociologists, labor attorneys, union strategists, and other experts to examine a range of gloves-off practices, the workers who are affected by them, and strategies for enforcing workplace standards. The authors offer varying perspectives on both the problem and the creative solutions currently being explored in a wide range of communities and industries. The Gloves-off Economy is a stirring call to renew worker protections in the twenty-first century.
To RSVP for this event, please contact Jinny Khanduja at 212.389.1399 or jkhandujaATdemos.org (http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/compose.mail?compose=1&.ob=f1be5703c47fac06026f8cb4acfcb8073831ab42&[email protected]&composecc=&subject=&body=), or click here (http://demos.org/event_rsvp.cfm?currenteventid=685834B9-3FF4-6C82-59E486000A340543).
Demos
220 Fifth Ave., 5th Flr. New York, NY 10001 | 212.633.1405 | infoATdemos.org (http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/compose.mail?compose=1&.ob=f1be5703c47fac06026f8cb4acfcb8073831ab42&[email protected]&composecc=&subject=&body=)