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• Les nouvelles précarités

  21 janvier 2008, par Paugam Serge
  The author compares several inquiries about precarious labour in France and Europe since 1993. At this time, a huge majority of all jobs were considered as « stable » when only 8% of all working contracts were clearly precarious (the so called « bad jobs »). Today, these distinction is no longer as significant as it was, for the stable contracts are hiding precarious working situations including stress and other forms of social pressure.

• Rechte Orientierungen unter Lohnabhängigen

  21. Januar 2008, von Dörre Klaus
  The articles resumes the sociological debate concerning the reasons of new authoritarian tendencies among european workers since the nineties. The author finds that is not clearly established that the globalisation and global concurrence between workers leeds to new authorian attitudes.

• Discrimination in the European Union

  21 January 2008, by TNS Opinion & Social
  The survey on discrimination and inequality in Europe was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social on behalf of the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities in the European Union Member States and in the two acceding countries, Romania and Bulgaria between the 7th of June and the 12th of July 2006. This summary examines discrimination on the grounds of sex, ethnic origin, religion or beliefs, age, disability and sexual orientation.

• European Handbook on Equality Data

  21 January 2008, by Makkonen Timo
  The Handbook discusses why and what kind of equality data should be gathered and how equality data should be compiled and it formulates recommendations to the EU Member States in this regard. It deals with the grounds of discrimination covered by the Racial Equality Directive (EU Directive 2000/43/EC) and Employment Equality Directive (Directive 2000/78/EC): racial and ethnic origin, religion and belief, age, disability and sexual orientation.

• Intercultural dialogue in Europe

  15 January 2008, by EOS Gallup Europe
  The survey on intercultural dialogue in Europe conducted by the Gallup Organization in November 2007 upon the request of the European Commission DG Education and Culture inquired about the EU citizens’ patterns of interaction with people from different cultures and their attitudes toward cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. The survey inquired also about the interest of respondents in the upcoming events of that will take place in 2008 in the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

• L’insécurité sociale : Qu’est-ce qu’être protégé ?

  9 janvier 2008, par Castel Robert
  Notre société est traversée par de grandes inquiétudes, et le sentiment d’insécurité est devenu, depuis quelques années, un sentiment dominant. Par exemple, pendant l’épisode électoral d’avril 2002, la défaite de Lionel Jospin et le succès au premier tour de Jean-Marie Le Pen se sont joués dans une large mesure sur cette question de l’insécurité. Depuis, le gouvernement dont nous avons hérité, avec Monsieur Sarkozy en particulier, a fait de la question de l’insécurité une priorité, voire sa priorité. Il faut prendre au sérieux cette inquiétude généralisée, car elle est populaire, au sens fort du mot, et elle en dit beaucoup sur l’état de notre société.

• The Social Security Privatization. The Impact on African American Families

  9 January 2008, by Rockeymoore Maya
  The study examines the arguments that tries to show the opporunity of the privatizatio process in the USA for afro-american citizens. The author shows that this policy is unable to stop the structural inequality of the welfare system and even concludes that these arguments underestimate the impact of privatization on afro-american families, while overlooking the full range of Social Security program benefits that are much more important to these group of citizens

• The working poor and the role of precarious employment

  2 January 2008, by Policy Research Initiative
  The paper shows the situation of the so called working poor in Canada, almost half a million of the canadian citicens, which makes a third of the whole population. The results are based on a mesure used by researchers of Social Developement Canada. The role of precarious employement is seen as one of the main factors of the increasing poverty of this part of the society.

• Condemned imam in Milan

  24 December 2007, by Petti Gabriella
  Abu IMAD was found guilty for delinquency association aggravated by conspiracy for terrorism. Other 10 defendants recognized responsible for the same offence. Milan, the imam of Jenner avenue sentenced to 3 years and 8 months

• Anonyme Umfrage zum Arbeitsamt

  18 December 2007, by Wompel Mag
  The cutting from a book shows the results of a statistical inquiry among 700 unemployed persons, concerning their view of the new flexicurity legislation in Germany in 2005, called «Hartz 4» (the title is inspired by the former Human Resources director of the Volkswagen company, Mister Hartz).

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