Rules vary for young workers.
Byline: ON THE JOB by Bureau of Labor and Industries For The Register-Guard Question: My brother and I own and operate our small farm as a partnership. I have two teenage daughters whom I would like to employ this summer. What are the employment/tax laws regarding this?...

Editorial.
Over the past few years I regularly kept newspaper articles relevant to employment or the labour market. I have used the material in my teaching and thought it might also be relevant to share with you. Nearly all of it comes from the New York Times and the Sydney...

The Napa County grand jury.
The Napa County grand jury has concluded that oversight of two farmworker housing projects that went far over budget was lacking and that "public servants who were supposed to oversee these projects failed to do their job and have not acknowledged that they had any responsibility for the problems."...

La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants.
La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants, Annette Aurelie Desmarais, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2006, 238 pages. The graphic image of a Korean farmer stabbing himself to death atop a barricade at the 2003 World Trade Organization protest in Cancun, Mexico brought international attention to the...

The soft machine: Tom Vanderbilt on Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Our Daily Bread.
IN ONE EARLY SCENE of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle, the Lithuanian-born protagonist reflects on his new job in Chicago's Packingtown. "Jurgis had," Sinclair writes, "stood with the rest up in the gallery and watched the men on the killing beds, marveling at their speed and power as...

ARAB AFFAIRS - June 20 -Arab World Fails To Achieve Poverty Alleviation Targets.
Tarik Al Alami, officer in charge at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, says the Arab region has not made significant progress in reducing poverty and lags behind other regions in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. He said the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, the...

Not so sweet.
Members of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's own political party are opposing his plan to raze a swath of rainforest for a sugarcane plantation. A Ugandan development company called the Mehta Group is proposing to cut down some 17,540 acres of the Mabira Forest--a nature reserve since 1932--to...

Q.
Q. By Luther Blisset. Translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside. New York: Harcourt, 2004. xi and 750 pages. Cloth. $26.00. A laborious historical fiction about Europe's more obscure sixteenth-century religious and political power struggles ... sounds like a gas, right? It is. Q's pseudonymous authors, collectively...

My father--Charles Bray Williams.
My father, Charles Bray Williams, was born on January 15, 1869. People usually tell me that he could not possibly be my father, he must be my grandfather! He grew up on the family farm, which was near the small country village of Shiloh in extreme northeastern...

STATE AND PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF NORTHERN NORWEGIANS AND WHITE SEA AND KOLA RUSSIANS.
In comparing the relation of state to people in northern Norway and the northwestern region of European Russia, I focus on the history of the northern Norwegians in Troms and Finnmark and of the Russians settled along the shores of the White Sea and on the Kola Peninsula. Special...