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New report about international work in Nordic trade unions
29.04.2005
Internationalisation and trade union organization is a new report
by Kristine Nergaard and Jon Erik Dølvik, based on a survey
among Nordic unions. They find that Nordic unions are engaged in
growing international activities, especially at the European and
Nordic levels. The report is published by the Swedish Institute
for Working Life (the SALTSA programme) and is the seventh about
this theme.
 Read more about the report
Find more about Fafo's
Globalisation Programme (in Norwegian)
Other publications
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 Book
release at ISF, April 27
26.04.2005
Several Fafo-researchers have contributed to this new publication,
Nytt arbeidsliv. Medvirkning, inkludering og belønning
(A new working life. Employee involvement, inclusion and renumeration),
published by Gyldendal Akademisk forlag; Torunn Kvinge, Bjørne
Grimsrud, Kristine Nergaard, Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke, Tove Midtsundstad,
Jon M. Hippe, and Anne Britt Djuve.Read
more about the release at The Institute for Social Research
(in Norwegian) |
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 Jon
Hanssen-Bauer about peace in the Middle East and the UN
25.04.2005
The journal Én verden (One world) has printed a speech
by Fafo Director Jon Hanssen-Bauer about the Middle East conflict
and the UN.Read the speech (pdffil, in
Norwegian) |
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 New
Dr. Siri Ytrehus
25.04.2005
Siri has presented her thesis at the University of Bergen: Between
modernity and tradition. Young elderly people's opinion of relocating.Read more (in Norwegian) |
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 Mark
Taylor about private sector and human rights
21.04.2005
Two recent articles by Mark Taylor address private sector involvement
in war and human rights abuse. "The Green Peace Prize"
appears in Adbusters Conflict Resolution, while "Corporate
Fallout Detectors and Fifth Amendment Capitalists: Corporate Complicity
in Human Rights Abuse" appears in Embedding Human Rights
in Business Practice, published by The U.N. Global Compact and
the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Find the journals here
Conflict
Resolution (No. 59 2005) Embedding
Human Rights in Business Practice (pdf)
Find the sites hereAdbustersThe
U.N. Global Compact |
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Fafo assistance to the newspaper Dagbladet
21.04.2005
Fafo is engaged jointly by the shop floor stewarts and management
of the Dagbladet newspaper to assist in their ongoing reorganisation.See also the reference in the journals Kampanje, Journalisten og Propaganda (in Norwegian) |
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Fafo's Forum on the EU enlargement Seminar May 26
18.04.2005
How has Norwegian working life been affected by EU enlargement?
Fafo's Forum on the EU enlargement invites you to an open seminar on Thursday, 26 May at Oslo
Congress Center. The Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Dagfinn
Høybråten, and the Minister of Local Government and
Regional Development, Erna Solberg, will both speak at the seminar.
For program, click here.For registration, click
here. (The seminar will be in Norwegian language except for
two speeches in English) |
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 Direct
investments in EU's new member countries
12.04.2005
In this second publication from Fafo's
Forum on EU Enlargement, Fafo researcher Torunn Kvinge looks
at the foreign investments in the eight new member countries from
one year ago.Read more (in Norwegian) |
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Fafo's annual reports 2004
07.04.2005
Annual report 2004 Fafo
Annual report 2004 Fafo Institute
for Labour and Social Research |
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 How
can Norwegian shipyards adjust to the EU enlargement?
06.04.2005
In a new paper, Fafo researcher Sigmund Aslesen discusses consequences
and strategies for Norwegian shipyards in the light of the EU enlargement.
This is the first publication from Fafo's
Forum on EU Enlargement.Read more (in Norwegian) |
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 Hilde
Haualand appointed Doctor Chair
05.04.2005
Hilde Haualand has been appointed the Doctor Chair for the 2005-06
academic year at Gallaudet University, Washington. She will start
in the autumn of 2005.Read more about
The Powrie V. Doctor Chair of Deaf Studies |
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Inclusive work
05.04.2005
The agreement on inclusive work was signed by the Norwegian government
and labour market organisations in 2001. Fafo has several projects
and publications on inclusive work, and we have made an overview
of these, and of relevant links.Read more (in Norwegian). |
