The Evolution of Employment, Working Time and Training in the Mining Industry
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Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9221132234
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Note on the Proceedings
Author: International Labour Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9789221134749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HIV/AIDS and Work
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9221158241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is estimated that by the end of 2003 there were just under 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS, with all but two million of these people of working age. This report, prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, sets out global estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the labour force and the working age population in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and in more developed regions. Issues discussed include: the implications for the private and public sectors, on agriculture and concerns for food insecurity and on the informal economy; on women and children; policy implications and examples of responses to the problem in a variety of workplace settings; provision of antiretroviral therapy in conjunction with HIV prevention in the workplace and the potential for expanded access to workplace-based treatment.
Mining in the 21st Century
Author: World Mining Congress
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 9789058092731
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Author: Jon C. Messenger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-09-09
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1135993327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As we enter the new century, a common goal has emerged: the removal or liberalization of restrictions on unsocial hours and the variation of working hours. This book draws together an international team to examine the process.
Women of the Mountain South
Author: Connie Park Rice
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0821445227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco redress this imbalance, telling the stories of these women and calling attention to the varied backgrounds of those who call the mountains home. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region. Each author focuses on a particular individual or group, but together they illustrate the diversity of women who live in the region and the depth of their life experiences. The Mountain South has been home to Native American, African American, Latina, and white women, both rich and poor. Civil rights and gay rights advocates, environmental and labor activists, prostitutes, and coal miners—all have lived in the place called the Mountain South and enriched its history and culture.
Rocks and Hard Places
Author: Roger Moody
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-02-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1848131682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of largescale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North. This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation.
State of the World 2003
Author: Worldwatch Institute
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-23
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1136533400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume takes a look at the trends that have put the global economy on a collision course with the Earth's ecosystems. It aims to provide a vital synthesis ranging across a wide spectrum of both the social and natural sciences. Published annually in 28 languages, each edition draws on the knowledge of the Worldwatch Institute's team of writers and researchers.
International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy
Author: Elizabeth Bastida
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 1158
ISBN-13: 9041121161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers a broad spectrum of issues shaping the current paradigm of minerals sector governance. The ultimate aim of the book is to understand trends and developments in mineral law and policy occurring at international, regional, cross-border and in some selected cases at national level and also to identify some of the challenges lying ahead. With these objectives in view, the book brings together a representative selection of the most knowledgeable authors on the subject. The contributions deal with a diverse range of issues tackled from interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics are divided into five main chapters: international and comparative aspects of mineral law; actors and policies in the minerals industry; investment prospects, financial and fiscal issues; sustainable development and regional outlooks. The book aspires to serve as a useful reference for scholars, practitioners, students and all those with an interest in current developments in the areas reviewed. Elizabeth Bastida is the Rio Tinto Research Fellow and the Director of the Mineral Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee (CEPMLP/Dundee). Thomas W?lde is the Professor of International Economic, Natural Resources and Energy Law and was (until 2001) the Executive Director of CEPMLP/Dundee. He currently runs TWA, his private consultancy firm, which provides advisory services in natural resources and energy law, regulatory reform, investment promotion, state enterprise/agency appraisal and restructuring, privatisation, contract assessment, negotiation and dispute management. Janeth Warden-Fern?ndez is a Research and Teaching Fellow, an advisor of the Mineral Law and Policy Programme and the Manager of the Distance Learning Programme at CEPMLP/Dundee.
