unemployment

Lernia Correctional Facility: a story from a Swedish unemployment programme

Khawaga — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:47:09 +0000

I have spent about two years in different unemployment programmes in a mid-size Swedish town and this is my story about that experience. For most of the time I was training to become a cook in the Lernia programme (nicknamed "Lernia Correctional Facility" by its inmates).

France: Areva strikers issued with summonses

jef costello — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:16:19 +0000

80 of the 89 workers at the Montrouge site have been on strike since January 10th over plans to close the factory down. Workers have also occupied and blockaded the buildings in protest. There has been no explanation of why the 31 employees targetted were chosen.

France: organisation amongst the homeless

jef costello — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:14:02 +0000

A familiar sight to many Parisians are the rows of people living in tents along the banks of the canal St Martin. They are homeless, mostly immigrants, mostly illegal. The tents are supplied by les enfants de Don Quichotte, an organisation that battles for the rights of homeless people.

After ten years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma trial and the dead end of alliance politics

Ed — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:46:26 +0000

An analysis from the ZACF journal Zabalaza #7 of the African National Congress (ANC)'s neo-liberal Growth Employment And Redistribution (GEAR) policy and its relation to the ANC-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Lost in Transit

Unemployed recalcitrance and welfare restructuring in the UK today - Aufheben (UK)

Joseph K. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:50:54 +0000

1. Introduction

In recent years, unemployment and similar welfare benefits - the dole - have become a focus of struggle in the UK. The small group which produces Aufheben has been involved in this struggle.

Physiotherapy students protest against unemployment

zobag — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:59:24 +0000

A Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) poll found that four months after graduating, 81% of physiotherapists were still looking for their first job. The CSP claimed that 28,000 patients were currently on a waiting list to see a physiotherapist. The Scottish Executive said a number of recruitment initiatives were under way.

One in four youth unemployment figure disputed

alibi — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:31:20 +0000

In the interview Lefresne, of the Institute of Economic and Social Research, questions the widely reported one in four youth unemployment figures that have been used repeatedly as a justification for the CPE.

Mining communities, unemployment and incapacity benefits

Steven. — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:49:40 +0000

'20 Years on: Has the economy of the coalfields recovered?' examined communities where over 10% of the population had been employed in the mines before the mass closures.

The report, brought out by the Centre for regional and social economic research at Sheffield Hallam university, said:

Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe Lower Andalucia, 1995-96

libcom — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:04:11 +0000

This article deals with a number of specific episodes of class struggle in Lower Andalucia[1] in the recent period.