Work choices : evolution or revolution

Never has a form of legislation created such contentious and wide-reaching emotional debate in Australia. It has divided the community and has resulted in extensive media activity. To the forefront are Australian academics who have often been the resource of expert comment and their reports have been prolific. In this book, academics have taken to opportunity to write their own perception of the impact of Work Choices in the workplace.

Report on the labor laws and labor conditions of foreign countries in relation to strikes and lockouts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor laws and regulations in Hawaii.

"A Compilation of Hawaii Employers Council Research reports."

Compiled labor laws of North Dakota; a ready reference and useful guide to the labor laws and legal information of interest to men and women employees of North Dakota.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor laws and regulations in Hawaii.

Mode of access: Internet.

Wages and prices in Australia: our labour laws and their effects; also, a report on how to prevent strikes,

Mode of access: Internet.

Workmen's compensation law, effective November 3, 1925, and other labor laws of the state of Arizona.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor laws of Maryland; a compilation of the laws regulating labor as they appear in the statutes of Maryland and the ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Compiled for the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics.

Mode of access: Internet.

Revision of certain labor laws contained in chapters 1, 2, and 3 of title 40 of the Code of Virginia [relating to the Department of Labor and Industry, employment agencies, and the protection of employees] Report to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia.

Mode of access: Internet.

Employer guide to New Jersey labor laws; a continuing digest and explanation of New Jersey laws affecting employer-employee relationships.

Mode of access: Internet.

The compilation of labor laws from the revised statutes and codes of Porto Rico, 1902-1916.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor laws governing the Division of Workshop and Factory Inspection /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fashion, the body and technology : tracing early 20th century techno-utopian ideas, aesthetics and impulses in 21st century wearable technology

‘Wearable technology’, or the use of specialist technology in garments, is promoted by the electronics industry as the next frontier of fashion. However the story of wearable technology’s relationship with fashion begins neither with the development of miniaturised computers in the 1970s nor with sophisticated ‘smart textiles’ of the twenty-first century, despite what much of the rhetoric suggests. This study examines wearable technology against a longer history of fashion, highlighted by the influential techno-sartorial experiments of a group of early twentieth century avant-gardes including Italian Futurists Giacomo Balla and F.T. Marinetti, Russian Constructivists Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova, and Paris-based Cubist, Sonia Delaunay. Through the interdisciplinary framework of fashion studies, the thesis provides a fuller picture of wearable technology framed by the idea of utopia. Using comparative analysis, and applying the theoretical formulations of Fredric Jameson, Louis Marin and Michael Carter, the thesis traces the appearance of three techno-utopian themes from their origins in the machine age experiments of Balla, Marinetti, Stepanova, Popova and Delaunay to their twenty-first century reappearance in a dozen wearable technology projects. By exploring the central thesis that contemporary wearable technology resurrects the techno-utopian ideas and expressions of the early twentieth century, the study concludes that the abiding utopian impetus to embed technology in the aesthetics (prints, silhouettes, and fabrication) and functionality of fashion is to unify subject, society and environment under a totalising technological order.

Innovation and evolution: challenges and opportunities for 21st century academic and research libraries

A report from the inaugural CONUL (Consortium of National & University Libraries) conference held in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone, June 3rd & 4th 2015.