September 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of Labor Day (Friday, 9/1/00)
Here's a History of Labor Day from the United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Labor Day Celebration for Kids (Saturday, 9/2/00)
A Labor Day Celebration for Kids is a collection of activities for the next generation of workers and comes to you from America Online.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money Tree Survey (Sunday, 9/3/00)
Who's getting the venture capital? Money Tree Survey from PriceWaterHouseCoopers can help you track investment in new ventures and get a sense of what the hottest sectors and regions are.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor Day (Monday, 9/4/00)
Here's the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Labor Day.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SlowLane (Tuesday, 9/5/00)
SlowLane is a resource site for stay-at-home dads.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ShiftWork (Wednesday, 9/6/00)
It's estimated that about 45 percent of the American workforce does not conventional daytime hours. Circadian Technologies ShiftWork site has information for those concerned about sleep deprivation and other issues relevant to people working nonstandard hours. Incidentally, "circadian rhythms" refers to the "biological clocks" in the body that regulate a person's adaptation to time intervals, and so on. For instance, when you travel to a new time zone and your body thinks you're still in the previous time zone, you experience "jet lag." Presumably, then, persons who work "swing shifts" are in a constant state of "jet lag," which may have serious implications for performance and safety.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BridgeWorks (Thursday, 9/7/00)
If you have a "generation gap" in your workplace, BridgeWorks may be able to help you close it in order to get the most and best out of yourself, as well as employees of all ages.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Making Temp Work Pay (Friday, 9/8/00)
Barbara Hundley offers advice for getting the most out of the suddenly huge "contingency" sector of the American economy. Making Temp Work Pay comes to you from the Alumni Career Center, University of Illinois Alumni Association.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Child Labor and India (Saturday, 9/9/00)
Child Labor and India is a policy statement from the Embassy of India in Washington, D. C. People in rich countries who believe that children should not be working at all often assume a level of privilege that is beyond the imagination of poor countries. Full-time learning, playing, and so on, is a luxury that some countries can't afford, and the consequences of not working for many of the world's children would be devastating. The official U.S. position has shifted during recent years from an attitude of wanting to outlaw child labor entirely to one of focusing on the elimination of sweatshop conditions. For instance, the Embassy of India points out that "there are more children under the age of fourteen in India than the entire population of the United States. The task of providing basic nutrition, education, and health care to these children is nearly overwhelming for India and many other countries with similar economic circumstances and must be given priority. India is the world's largest democracy and has the second-largest population of any nation in the world. Demographers are forecasting that India is likely to surpass China in total population sometime later in the 21st century.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Agricultural Economics Virtual Library (Sunday, 9/10/00)
The Agricultural Economics Virtual Library is a place to begin if you're interested in finding information about a critical and often troubled sector of the global economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Student Viewpoints (Monday, 9/11/00)
What are students thinking? Student Viewpoints offers an opportunity for them to describe their best and worst higher ed experiences for the benefit of each other and perhaps their colleges and universities as well.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Retirement Planning (Tuesday, 9/12/00)
Here are many things about Retirement Planning from the "About Network."

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worldwide Crisis in the Welfare State (Wednesday, 9/13/00)
Here's Michel Camdessus' speech from October 15, 1998 when he was still Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. He called it Worldwide Crisis in the Welfare State: What next in the Context of Globaliazation?

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Inter@ctive Week: Management (Thursday, 9/14/00)
Here's the management resource page from the online version of Inter@ctive Week magazine. It's help handling management responsibilities in the new information economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: growthink (Friday, 9/15/00)
growthink wants to help you with your "digital marketplace" business plan and other matters, for a fee.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EcEdWeb (Saturday, 9/16/00)
EcEdWeb offers a wide range of resources for economic educators at all levels and comes to you from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Council on Social Development (Sunday, 9/17/00)
The Canadian Council on Social Development is a nonprofit research and activist organization promoting greater social and economic security for Canadians.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Inflation Calculator (Monday, 9/18/00)
According to the Inflation Calculator, what cost $100 in 1940 would have cost $1166.75 in 1999. Plug in your own numbers to satisfy your curiosity about the buying power of the American dollar at different points in recent history.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JumpStart (Tuesday, 9/19/00)
Kids need the 3Rs, probably a C during the hi-tech era, and certainly an M. That is, they need to know about money. JumpStart can help, and comes to you from the Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: techies.com (Wednesday, 9/20/00)
If you're interested in where to find technical training as well as statistics about demand for technnically-trained people in various American markets, techies.com may be for you.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CampusEngine (Thursday, 9/21/00)
CampusEngine provides technologies and support to enable college and university newspapers to publish online.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (Friday, 9/22/00)
Nearly anyone may be able to call him/herself a "financial planner," but not a Certified Financial Planner, because that term belongs to the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards which allows its use only after meeting certain criteria. Among other things, this nonprofit organization is working on a revision of its ethical guidelines for Certified Financial Planners.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Competia.com (Saturday, 9/23/00)
Competia.com can help you with your corporate intelligence, which these folks regard as essential in the new economy. It's not cloak and dagger stuff, though.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employee Involvement Concepts (Sunday, 9/24/00)
The Industrial Revolution resulted in a long period during which Western economies were dominated by adversarial classes. Over time, the various dichotomies have been reduced, and, in some cases, deliberately. Peter Drucker has written about "capitalism without capitalists," pointed out that much of the money that feeds the capitalist engine now comes from worker pension funds, rather than from a few "robber-baron" capitalists, and there has also been a dramatic increase in the overall proportion of the American population who owns stocks. In a technical sense, it's been getting harder to tell the workers from the owners. Within work organizations, there has been an effort to distribute authority and influence more broadly and also to have a greater proportion of the people in the organization sharing both risk and reward, and this has resulted in various efforts to increase worker involvement. Here are some of the common Employee Involvement Concepts.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: About OPEC (Monday, 9/25/00)
OPEC stands for the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries, and it's been in the news a lot again lately because of concerns about the high price of crude oil. Here's what OPEC has to say about itself.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nordic Forecasts (Tuesday, 9/26/00)
Nordic Forecasts provides research and analysis on economic, political, and business prospects in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Korea: States of War (Wednesday, 9/27/00)
At long last, tensions between North Korea and South Korea have been subsiding lately, and, while it's easy to exaggerate the good news, there is at least contact between the two governments, which may substantially reduce the chances of a second Korean War as a final destructive and self-destructive act on the part of the Stalinist, impoverished North. For perspective on life on the Korean peninsula during the half century since the beginning of the Korean War, here's a special report from CNN: Korea: States of War.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: European Commission on Education (Thursday, 9/28/00)
Here's an education guide from the European Commission for persons wanting to study internationally in member nations of the Eu or EEA.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Graduate Training Programs in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Friday, 9/29/00)
If you are interested in post-graduate study in I/O psych, here's the year 2000 list of Graduate Training Programs in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which is Division 14 of the American Psychological Association.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Traditional Employment Interview Questions (Saturday, 9/30/00)
As the two major presidential candidates do prep for the big televised debates, you may be thinking about how you can prepare for that big job interview. Here are a number of Traditional Employment Interview Questions you might want to be ready for.

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