Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Thirty-Hour Workweek (Tuesday, 6/1/99)
Here's an economist arguing for the Thirty-Hour Workweek, saying that it would be good for everybody. Among other things, it would help alleviate the work/family pressures many people have been feeling lately. However, with increasingly severe labor shortages throughout the American economy, this may not be the time.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Educator (Wednesday, 6/2/99)
If you would like to teach outside the United States, here's help in finding the right position in the right place. The International Educator is a newspaper containing job listings from as many as 750 American and International schools worldwide.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workplace Diversity Network (Thursday, 6/3/99)
The Workplace Diversity Network is a joint project of the National Conference for Community and Justice and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Many work organizations rely on the WDN for its research and services.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Compensation in the MIS/dp Field (Friday, 6/4/99)
Compensation in the MIS/dp Field is a 693-page report from Abbott, Langer & Associates, Inc. and is available to organizations for a substantial fee. However, here is a summary of the report.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (Saturday, 6/5/99)
ERIC stands for "Educational Resources Information Center," and is a standard resource for educators. Here is ERIC's Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for the Future (Sunday, 6/6/99)
The Institute for the Future is a private, non-profit Silicon Valley "think tank" that has been advising major corporations and other leading organizations for many years. Of particular interest may be their forecast of major trends for the next ten years.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Industrial Hygiene Association (Monday, 6/7/99)
Industrial hygienists are technical professionals who work to safeguard the health and safety of people in the workplace and the community. The American Industrial Hygiene Association helps keep them in touch with one another and can also be an important source of information for you.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: DowJones.com (Tuesday, 6/8/99)
DowJones.com is a major financial and business information site from the publishers of the great Wall Street Journal.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MBA FreeAgents.com (Wednesday, 6/9/99)
Temps aren't just clerical workers anymore. The new economy prefers the flexibility of a "just-in-time" labor force that is available only when needed. As a consequence, employers have been relying more on temporary and contract workers of all kinds. For example, want to rent an MBA? MBA FreeAgents.com is an example of a firm that offers the services of professionals on a short-term basis.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bank of Montreal Economic Research and Analysis (Thursday, 6/10/99)
The Bank of Montreal Economic Research and Analysis web site offers many, many reports and analytical articles on the Canadian, U.S., and world economies.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: startup.wsj.com (Friday, 6/11/99)
startup.wsj.com is help for entrepreneurs from the Wall Street Journal.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration Library (Saturday, 6/12/99)
The Institute for Economics and Business Administration Library is located at Japan's Kobe University and is open to outside researchers as well as members of the university community.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Christian Jobs Online (Sunday, 6/13/99)
If you're Christian, and if sharing your religious ideology with your workers or employer is important to you, Christian Jobs Online is available to help persons of like mind find each other.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Reinventing Undergraduate Education (Monday, 6/14/99)
Many young people are attracted to "big name" universities which gain their prestige mostly from research. However, what many young undergraduate students often find when they arrive on campus are huge classes taught by inexperienced teaching assistants, some of whom can barely speak English. For beginners, the quality of instruction is often far higher at no-name community colleges or non-research liberal arts colleges. The Boyer Commission at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has studied the problem and presents its conclusions and recommendations in Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Labor Relations Authority (Tuesday, 6/15/99)
The Federal Labor Relations Authority administers labor-management relations programs for 1.9 million Federal employees throughout the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Master in Entrepreneurship (Wednesday, 6/16/99)
The Asian Institute of Management at Makati City, Philippines offers a Master in Entrepreneurship degree.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Vocational Qualifications (Thursday, 6/17/99)
What does an individual have to know and be able to do in order to handle a particular job in a real-world work setting? The National Vocational Qualifications are awards based on standards established in industry and come to you from the Centre for Training and Development at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canada Career Consortium (Friday, 6/18/99)
The Canada Career Consortium is an alliance of organizations from the private sector as well as government and is a rich source of information to guide career decision making and the search for employment.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Backgrounds Online (Saturday, 6/19/99)
Backgrounds Online offers extensive background checks to employers so that they will hire "safe, honest, and competent employees." One problem is that some studies have indicated that a fairly large proportion of public records on individuals contain inaccurate information. Best to take a look at your own record to see what others are seeing.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CTDNews (Sunday, 6/20/99)
CTDNews claims to be "North America's leading source for information on cumulative trauma injuries (CTDs) and workplace repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome to low-back pain."

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Crash Course in Wills and Trusts (Monday, 6/21/99)
Attorney and financial planner Michael Palermo offers his Crash Course in Wills and Trusts, and says that, despite widespread belief, estate planning is not just for the wealthy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Council for Capital Formation (Tuesday, 6/22/99)
For a quarter century, the American Council for Capital Formation has advocated public policies supporting economic growth. Many prominent individuals have been affiliated with the Council, and it is heavily populated with Republicans.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Retail Worker (Wednesday, 6/23/99)
Retail Worker is a new site for retail workers involved in union activism. It was established by "veterans of union drives" at two major bookseller chains.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CNNfn (Thursday, 6/24/99)
Ted Turner transformed his father's small billboard business into a broadcast empire that stretched across much of the world, and, then, sold it all to Time-Warner. His Cable News Network also has helped make the world a more connected place and has accelerated the development of a global information economy. Speaking of economics, CNNfn is the financial arm of CNN, on-line and on the air..

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: An Essay on the Principle of Population (Friday, 6/25/99)
If you've been worrying about the population explosion and the scarcity of resources, Thomas Malthus might be one of the reasons. His An Essay on the Principle of Population was published in London 201 years ago. It has been made available on the web by Western Washington University sociology professor Ed Stephan.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Work and Health (Saturday, 6/26/99)
The Institute for Work and Health is a Canadian organization that conducts research on how ergonomic and psychological factors interact to produce work injuries and disability. It offers consultation and works with other agencies to achieve effective rehabilitation for those who have been injured on the job.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Accounting Students (Sunday, 6/27/99)
Here's a specialized career site especially for Accounting Students.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: G15 Summit (Monday, 6/28/99)
You've no doubt heard a lot about the G7 (the group of seven richest industrial nations in the world) and G8 (same rich nations, plus Russia), but have you heard of the G15? This is a group of seventeen developing countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America organized in order to "foster cooperation and provide input for other international groups, such as the World Trade Organization" and the G7.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers (Tuesday, 6/29/99)
There are an awfully lot of career sites on the web, and some of them are becoming more specialized. Here's a A Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers sponsored by the Sloan Foundation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Jaycees (Wednesday, 6/30/99)
For many years, young people, particularly in business, have been helped by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce to get the most and best out of their careers and also to combine work with community service.

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