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September 24, 2004 -October 31, 2004 (No. 1)
IIR NEWS AND EVENTS
IIR Fall Reception: October 1, 2004
IIR
Faculty Seminars
Economics 251 Labor Seminar
Series, Fall 2004
Professor Irene Bloemraad
Sponsors Fall 2004 Immigration Workshop
Some
New and Recent Faculty Members on Campus
CPER
Publishes New Pocket Guides
IIR Working
Paper Series: 2004 Additions (year to date)
Industrial
Relations Journal: Book and Internet Reviews
Labor
Project for Working Families News
Labor
Center Events and Publications
Library
News
Organizational Behavior and Industrial
Relations Seminars, Fall 2004
CAMPUS NEWS
& EVENTS
Agreement extends CDOP
funding to CUE workers
Berkeley Professors
Join Nobel Laureate To Launch Online "Economists’
Voice"
Center for Latin American
Studies Events
Center for Research on
Education and Work News
Graduate Division's
Lecture Series
Haas School of Business
Events
Human Rights Center Report: “Modern
slavery is thriving in the U.S.”
Institute
for the Study of Social Change News
Institute
of East Asian Studies
Institute of Governmental
Studies News
Institute for Urban and Regional
Development Events
Political Science
Sociology Colloquia
BEYOND
THE CAMPUS
Commonwealth Club of California
Lectures (Lech Walesa to speak)
World
Affairs Council Lectures
Quick Links to Campus News
The Campus News Center:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/
The Campus Calendar:
http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/
IIR NEWS AND EVENTS
IIR Fall Reception
SPECIAL WELCOME AND INVITATION
Professor Michael Reich, IIR Director and Josephine Williamson,
IIR Management Services Officer, cordially invite the IIR community
and its friends to join us at our Fall Reception:
Friday,
October 1, 2004, 4:00 pm– 6:00 pm
Directors Lounge
Institute of Industrial Relations
Refreshments will be served
Please RSVP to Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu,
643-3012
Faculty Seminars
NOTE: Please RSVP to Myra Armstrong, zulu2@berkeley.edu,
643-3012 for seminars for planning purposes. Thanks!
Thursday, October 7, 2004, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Professor
Richard B. Freeman
Economics Department, Harvard University
“From
the Webbs to the Web: the Contribution of the Internet to Reviving
Union Fortunes”
Monday, October 11, 2004, 12 to 1 pm
Professor Jerome
Karabel
Sociology Department, UCB
"The
Origins of Affirmative Action at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton"
Monday, November 8, 2004, 12 to 1 pm
Arindrajit
Dube, Ken Jacobs and Carol Zabin
CLRE and IIR, UCB
“The
Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California”
Monday, November 22, 2004, 12 to 1 pm
Professor
David Lee
Economics Department, UCB
“Economic
Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers, 1984-2001”
Monday, December 6, 2004, 12 to 1 pm
Professor Candace
Howes
Economics Department, Connecticut College
"Upgrading
California’s Homecare Workforce: The Impact of Political
Action and Unionization"
ECONOMICS 251 Labor Seminar
Series, Fall 2004
Professor Clair Brown
Seminar Location: 608-7 Evans Hall
Schedule: Thursday, 2:00-4:00 PM
September 9: David Levine, UC Berkeley
"Does
Industrialization = 'Development'? The Effects of Industrialization
on School Enrollment and Youth Employment in Indonesia"
(with Maya Federman)
September 16: Alex Mas, UC Berkeley
"Do
Disappointing Pay Raises Lower Productivity? Final-Offer Arbitration
and the Performance of New Jersey Police Officers"
September 23: Kathy Shaw, Stanford University
"The
Strategic Investment in Information Technologies and New Human
Resource Practices and Their Effects on Productivity: An Insider
Econometric Analysis"
October 6, 4-5:30: Eddie Lazear, Standford
University
"Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the
Test" (Joint With Department Seminar)
October 7: Richard Freeman, Harvard University
"Marketization
of Household Production and the EU-US Gap in Work"
October 14: David Becker, UC Berkeley
"Medicare
Reimbursement and the Cost and Quality of Care"
Discussants: Andrea Cann, Sarah Frank
October 21: Stacy Sneeringer, UC Berkeley
"Examining the links between concentrated livestock farming,
pollution, and infant health"
Discussants: Baasil Choudhry, Kristine Brown
October 28: Francisco Martorell, UC Berkeley
"Do High School Graduation Exams Matter? A Regression
Discontinuity Analysis of Graduation Rates, GED Acquisition,
Post-Secondary Schooling, and Earnings"
Discussants: Sally Kwak, Jeffrey Holman
Professor Irene Bloemraad Sponsors
Fall 2004 Immigration Workshop
WHAT: The immigration workshop is an informal group of faculty,
students, and visiting researchers interested in all aspects
of migration (including the 2nd generation), both in the United
States and around the world. The main goal is to help members
develop their migration-related research, and to build a community
of migration scholars at Berkeley.
WHERE: Locations to be announced. Contact Professor Bloemraad
at bloemr@uclink.berkeley.edu
WHO: Anyone at Berkeley (student, faculty, post-doc, visitor)
may participate. We also have a few non-Berkeley affiliates.
The workshop is directed by Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor
in Sociology, and supported by the generous financial assistance
of the Institute of Industrial Relations.
ACTIVITIES: We will have meetings every two to three weeks,
for 1-1.5 hours, probably around lunch time on Fridays. Our
main activity will be providing workshop members with feedback
on works-on-progress. Circulated material
might be as rough as an interview schedule or first draft of
a grant proposal, or as polished as a dissertation chapter or
article submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
SCHEDULE:
October 1, 2004
October 12, 2004
October 29, 2004
November 12, 2004
December 3, 2004
Some New and Recent Faculty Members
on Campus
The following Faculty members have joined the University in
the last several months. IIR Director Michael Reich and the
IIR Community extend a warm welcome!
Irene
Bloemraad, Sociology
Sean Farhang,
Goldman School of Public Policy
Rucker Johnson,
Goldman School of Public Policy
Alexandre Mas,
Haas School of Business
Enrico Moretti,
Economics
Dara O’Rourke, Environmental
Science, Policy & Management, College of Natural Resources
Paul Pierson, Political Science
Dylan
Riley, Sociology
Sondra Smith,
Sociology
CPER Publishes New Pocket Guides
NEW:
Pocket
Guide to K-12 Certificated Employee Classification and Dismissal
NEW 2004 EDITIONS:
Pocket
Guide to Public Sector Arbitration: California
Pocket
Guide to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act
Pocket
Guide to the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights
Act
IIR Working Paper Series: 2004
Additions (Year-to-Date)
Trond Petersen,
Ishak Saporta, and Marc-David L. Seidel (August 4,
2004):
“Getting
Hired: Race and Sex Differences”
Trond Petersen and Thea Togstad (August 4,
2004):
“Getting
the Offer: Sex Discrimination in Hiring”
Charlan Nemeth and Jack Goncalo (April
16, 2004):
“Influence
and Persuasion in Small Groups”
Marcy Whitebook, Dan Bellm, Erika Cruz, Michelle Munn,
Joon Yong Jo, Mirella Almaraz, and Yuna Lee (April
1, 2004):
“Training
the Next Generation of Teachers: A Preliminary Survey of California’s
Higher Education Programs”
Xuming
Wu, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and Amos Golan (February 1,
2004):
“Government
Policy Effects on Urban and Rural Income Inequality”
Ximing Wu and Jeffrey M. Perloff (February
1, 2004):
“China's
Income Distribution Over Time: Reasons for Rising Inequality”
Also Received, but not yet posted:
James R.
Lincoln and Didier Guillot:
“Durkheim and
Organizational Culture”
Didier Guillot
and James R. Lincoln:
“Dyad and Network:
Models of Manufacturer-Supplier Collaboration in the Japanese
TV Manufacturing Industry”
Industrial Relations:
A Journal of Economy and Society: Book and Internet Reviews
IIR’s publishes the top-ranked scholarly journal in the
field of Industrial Relations. In addition to research articles,
the journal includes a periodic data update section, regular
updates on Internet resources (the most recent issue includes
info.on ILO databases) and brief reviews of selected books.
Terry Huwe, Librarian, and Janice Kimball are column editors
for the book and Internet reviews. The journal Web page includes
many article abstracts, and will soon host the book and Internet
reviews (see http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/indrel).
Some sample entries follow:
BOOK REVIEWS
Culture and the Labour Market.
By Siobhan Austen. Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003. 168 pp. 1-84376-317-6. $75.00.
This book explores the meaning of culture and the nature of
its influence on economic
processes and outcomes. It focuses on the labor market as a
social institution that operates
within a larger cultural sphere, with many causes and effects.
The authors pay close
attention to alternative theoretical and empirical approaches
to labor market analysis.
The Economics
of Affirmative Action. Edited by Harry J. Holzer
and
David Neumark. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing,
2004. 704 pp. 1-84376-117-3. $260.00.
The contributors explore affirmative action programs and attempt
to move beyond rhetoric
to evidence. They explore affirmative action from a variety
of viewpoints, emphasizing
analyses that depend on data and measurable outcomes. The resulting
compilation
will be useful to social scientists who study the multilayered
impacts of affirmative action
programs and how they influence society at large.
INTERNET REVIEWS
International
Labour Organization/Country Labour Force Survey Portal
The ILO Library is the one of the most important libraries for
industrial relations researchers. Its Web site provides an extensive,
easy-to-use portal for individual countries’ labor force
surveys. Each link directs the user to the most current survey
published. Some of the surveys require a subscription, whereas
others include only summary data.
Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development Labor Statistic Portal
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
is a primary source of statistical publications. The Web site
acts as a portal to OECD global labor statistics and publications,
which are downloadable in PDF format.
LABOR PROJECT FOR WORKING FAMILIES:
The California Family Leave Research Project published "Paid
Family Leave in California: New Research Findings"
that shows overwhelming support for paid family leave in California,
but few know about the law that came into effect July 1, 2004.
LABOR CENTER News
Check the fast-changing Labor Center Web for news on the following:
Low Wage Work Research
"Hidden
Costs of Wal-Mart Jobs"
"Wage
and Health Benefit Restructuring in California's Grocery Industry"
"The
Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California"
IIR LIBRARY:
The Exhibits and Display Committee is creating a new series
of graphics that will feature history, news and events at IIR.
These will be exhibited in the Directors Lounge and throughout
the building. Committee members include:
Terry Huwe
Elizabeth del Rocío Camacho
Janice Kimball
All IIR Units will be added to this series as it grows. Check
out the first exhibit pieces in the Directors Lounge!
Organizational Behavior and Industrial
Relations (OBIR) Seminars, Fall 2004
Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 pm – Cheit 220, Haas School of
Business
September 29, 2004: John Van Maanen, MIT, "Shifts
in ethnography (through the ages)"
Octoeber 6, 2004: Dacher Keltner, UC-Berkeley
October 13, 2004: TBA
October 20, 2004: TBA
October 27, 2004: Randall Peterson, London
Business School, "Doing the right thing & making the
best decision: A legitimacy based theory of organizational team
effectiveness"
November 3, 2004: Monica Higgins, Harvard University,
"Career imprints: creating leaders across an industry"
November 10, 2004: Trond Petersen, UC-Berkeley
November 17, 2004: Elaine Wong, UC-Berkeley,
"It could have been better: Effects of communicating counterfactual
thoughts on impression formation"
CAMPUS NEWS AND EVENTS
Agreement extends CDOP funding
to CUE workers
The Career Development Opportunity Program (CDOP) is again available
to Berkeley staff represented by the Coalition of University
Employees (CUE), following an agreement reached last week. On
Sept. 8, representatives of the campus and CUE signed an agreement
that permits CUE-represented clerical employees to participate
in and submit applications to the CDOP for the July 2004 to
June 2005 funding cycle, effective immediately. Following announcement
of the agreement, the Office of Human Resources has begun to
process applications received between July 28 and Sept. 8 from
employees represented by CUE.
Information on the CDOP program, as well as application forms,
are available at http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/learning/cdop.htm.
Berkeley Professors Join Nobel
Laureate To Launch Online "Economists’ Voice"
The first issue of "The Economists' Voice," a new
journal featuring analysis and opinion by leading economists
about key national and international policy issues, is being
launched today (Wednesday, Sept. 22) by two University of California,
Berkeley, economists and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate from
Columbia University.In its premiere edition, the journal tackles
such topics as the fair use of intellectual property, political
party flip-flops on federal deficits, the mysteries of international
capital flow, and evaluation of former U.S. President Clinton's
claim that he put police on the streets and took guns off while
President Bush has done the opposite.
The full story is online at
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/09/22_16698.shtml
Center for Latin American Studies
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/
Daniel A. Sumner
"Agricultural
Trade Disputes and U.S. Farm Subsidies: Implications for Latin
America"
Monday, October 4, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Mariclaire
Acosta
“The Women of Ciudad Juárez”
Wednesday, October 13, 4:00 pm
Room 223, Moses Hall
Between 1993 and 2003 more than 300 women were murdered in the
border town of Ciudad Juárez. In at least 86 of these
cases, the victims exhibited signs of extreme violence including
torture, rape and mutilation. Most of the slain women were poor
immigrants from rural Mexico between 15 and 25 years of age.
The lecture will explore the causes of this extreme violence
as well the reasons why the Mexican State has failed to investigate
and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes.
Martín Hopenhayn
"Youth in
Latin America: Between Protagonists and Those Left Behind"
Thursday, October 14, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
In the areas of social and citizen participation, Latin American
youth have moved away from the utopian and messianic impulses
of previous generations. The spaces and the motivations for
coming together have changed radically. Neither redeemed by
large projects for social change nor recognized as full citizens,
the youth today occupy an uncertain and contradictory place
between cultural autonomy and material dependence, between more
education and less employment, between the ideal of current
abundance and the future demands of human capital, between more
information and less power.
Martín Hopenhayn is a researcher at the Social Development
Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC) and during 2004 worked as the official in
charge of this division.
Cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
This lecture will be given in Spanish.
Claudine
LoMonaco & Mary Spicuzza
Video Premiere: “Matías”
Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
More than 3,000 people have died trying to cross the U.S.–Mexico
border in the last decade. Filmmakers Claudine LoMonaco and
Mary Spicuzza came face to face with one migrant’s tragedy
when they met with the family of Matías Juan García
Zavaleta, a father of two who perished in the Arizona desert
during what U.S. border officials call the “season of
death.” In this documentary, LoMonaco and Spicuzza interview
the brother who accompanied Matías García on his
tragic journey as well as the wife, children and parents he
left behind.
Claudine LoMonaco and Mary Spicuzza are correspondents for Frontline/World
and have recently received their master’s degrees from
the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Center Latin American Studies Panel Discussion:
“Perspectives
on Immigration”
- Gilbert Cedillo, California State Senator (D-Los Angeles)
- Maria Echaveste, Attorney and CEO Nueva Vista Group; Deputy
Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration (1998-2000)
- Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics;
Chair of UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program,
UC Davis
- Harley Shaiken, Professor of Education and Geography; Chair
of the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
Thursday, October 21, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Center for Research on Education
and Work
CREW
(Center for Research on Education and Work) is located in
the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Education, Tolman Hall,
and is dedicated to the study of education and work.
Graduate Division’s Lecture Series
The Graduate Division’s series of endowed lectures resumes
this fall with a number of talks by visiting faculty and Berkeley
faculty. On Tuesday October 19th, Berkeley Professor Emeritus
Ken Jowitt, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution,
will present the Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture. He will speak
on “The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization or Americanization?”
The Lecture is at 4:10 p.m. in the Lipman Room, Barrows Hall.
For information on Graduate Division lectures, call 643-7413.
The Haas School of Business
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/
Center for Responsible Business
Presenter: David Greenberg
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Altria Group,
Inc.
(Altria is now the parent company of Philip Morris and Kraft
Foods)
Executive Education Learning Classroom, S480
Wednesday, October 13
6:00 p.m.
For more information, contact Joanna Trammell at joannat@haas.berkeley.edu.
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations
(OBIR) Seminars, Fall 2004
Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 pm – Cheit 220, Haas School of
Business
--OBIR Seminars are listed above, under Institute
of Industrial Relations events, as IIR supports the OBIR program
Human Rights Center Report: “Modern slavery is
thriving in the U.S. “
By Janet Gilmore, Media Relations, 23 September
2004
BERKELEY – Washington, D.C. - A new report on forced labor
in the United States reveals in disturbing detail how individuals
in communities across the country are forced through threats
or violence to work in deplorable conditions for little or no
pay.
The report, "Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United
States," describes for the first time the nature and scope
of modern-day slavery in America.
The report covers the period of 1998 to 2003 and is based on
quantitative and qualitative data, including a survey of 49
service providers experienced in forced labor cases; an analysis
of 131 cases of forced labor reported in U.S. newspapers; eight
case studies of forced labor in various regions of the United
States; and interviews with government officials, service providers
and labor advocates. Copies of the "Hidden Slaves"
report will be available online at: http://www.hrcberkeley.org
and http://www.freetheslaves.net.
More Information: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/09/23_16691.shtml
Institute for the Study of Social
Change
New Metropolis Speaker Series:
Bag Lunch Colloquium
Latitudinal Citizenship, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of
Governmentality
Prof. Aihwa Ong, Anthropology
and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Monday, October 14th
12:pm – 1:30pm
ISSC Conference Room 2420 Bowditch Street at Haste
Color-Coded Jobs: Employment Discrimination in San Francisco
and Los Angeles
John Trasviña, Director,
Discrimination Research Center, Berkeley & Los
Angeles
Tuesday, October 26
3:30-5:00pm
ISSC Conference Room 2420 Bowditch Street at Haste
ISSC/IIR Colloquium
The Origins of Affirmative Action at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
Prof. Jerome Karabel, Sociology, UCB
Monday, October 11th
2521 Channing Way (near Telegraph).
12:pm – 1:30pm
Co-sponsored with Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR).
Emerging Latina/Latino Majority Seminar Series
Holding the Line? Latina/Latino Immigrants in California
Monday October 22nd
3:pm – 5:pm
Prof. Belinda Reyes,
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, UC Merced
Discussant: Victoria Robinson, Research Associate, CLPR, UCB
CLPR Conference Room at 2547 Channing (entrance is on Bowditch).
Sponsored by CLPR, co-sponsored by ISSC.
Institute of East Asian Studies
"Migrants, Markets and the State: The Formation and Transformation
of the Lhasa Market"
Xiaojiang Hu
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)
Friday, October 22
4:00-6:00 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
Institute of Governmental Studies
September 27, Noon
Positive Political Theory: "Political Threats and Patterns
of Campaign Contributions: a Theoretical and Empirical Analysis"
Ethan Kaplan, UC Berkeley
Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
September 29, 3pm-5pm
The Center on Politics - The Pollsters Handicap the Horserace:
A panel discussion and analysis of the latest polling trends
featuring Mark DiCamillo, Director of the Field
Institute, Chuck Rund of Charleton Research,
and David Binder of David Binder Research.
IGS Library, 109 Moses Hall
Institute of Urban and Regional
Development
'CALIFORNIA AT 50 MILLION' COLLOQUIM SERIES EVENT:
"Putting
California's Growth into an Historical Perspective"
"California at 50 Million," a new University
of California, Berkeley, speaker series starting Tuesday, Sept.
28, will explore the demographic, economic and environmental
impacts of a state population projected to hit 50 million within
the next 20 to 25 years.High-profile leaders from the public
and private sectors will meet Tuesdays to explore such issues
as California's finances, future needs in terms of roads, education,
water and social services, as well as housing and technology
for the state's 16 million new residents and 8 million new households.
See the press release at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/
Political Science
http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu
IIR Faculty Member in the News
Professor David Collier
has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. Congratulations, David!
Political Science Department and Travers Program Launch New
Ethics and Public Accountability Website
http://ethics.berkeley.edu/
Political observers speculate that there is a growing crisis
in the ethical behavior of our elected leaders. This website
is dedicated to assist with the understanding and study of this
emerging area of inquiry, as well as many other fields of interest.
Sociology
Fall 2004 Sociology Departmental Colloquium Series
September 30
Heather Haveman, Columbia
Business School
“Hellfire and Brimstone Religious
Politics in the Making of American Magazines, 1741-1860"
October 7
John Skrentny, UCSD
“Policy-Elite
Perceptions and Social Movement Success: Winners and Losers
in the Struggle for Minority Rights”
[Co-sponsored with the Law and Society Program]
October 14
Paul Pierson, Berkeley (Political
Science)
“Off-Center Republicans, Tax Cuts, and the
Erosion of American Democracy”
BEYOND THE CAMPUS
Commonwealth Club of California
Lech Walesa -- Medallion Speakers Series
Friday September 24th
Grand Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St. (California &
Mason), San Francisco
$20 for Members, $40 for Non-Members, $65 for Premium Seating
(Members & Non-Members) 11:15 am Check-in, 12:pm, Program
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/features/mss/programs.html#upcoming
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Monday September 27th
Professor, Harvard Business School: Author, Confidence: How
Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End
Monday September 27
6:pm, Program, Club Office, 595 Market St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco.
Free for Members, $18 for Non-Members
Doug
Dirks
Marketing Director, Ten Thousand Villages
Monday October 18
12:30pm, Program, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Room 255,
150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose. Free for Members and Non-Members.
HEALTH CARE
RICHARD CORLIN, M.D., Past
President, American Medical Association & California Medical
Association
ALLAN ZAREMBERG, President,
California Chamber of Commerce
MONDAY OCTOBER 25
In 2003, California passed legislation requiring employers to
provide health coverage to employees or pay into a state fund
to provide such coverage (with exemptions or tax credits for
small businesses). A coalition of business groups sponsored
Proposition 72 to overturn this legislation. Do these health
care coverage requirements address concerns about the scaling
back of employer-based health coverage? What effect will this
legislation have on California businesses and the role of California
state government in the health care market? Come hear what the
major advocates and opponents of this ballot measure have to
say.
5:30, Wine & Cheese Reception, 6:pm Program, Club Office,
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco. Free for Members
and Non-Members
World Affairs Council
Daniel Altman
Columnist, The New York Times and Business 2.0; Former Teaching
Fellow of Economics, Harvard University
Monday, September 27th
In Neoconomy, Daniel Altman explains the intellectual
roots of the Bush administration’s economic policy and
discusses why Bush has been so intent on implementing it despite
lowered expectations, terror, and financial scandals that have
buffeted the economy in recent years. Altman shows why neoconomists
remain committed to their radical vision despite the biggest
budget deficit in history. Ultimately, he looks at the future
impact of this economic policy.
Check In: 5:30 PM, Program: 6:00 PM,
Members: Free, Nonmembers: $12, Students with ID: $5 Cosponsors:
$7
Location: At the Council, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd floor conference
room, San Francisco
http://www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1017
Half-Day Conference: Outsourcing Bay Area Employment
Saturday, October 9
Keynote Speech by Carl Guardino, Executive
Director, Silicon Valley Manufacturers’ Group
Bob
Brownstein, Policy Director, Working Partnerships USA
John Ciacchella, Vice President, A. T. Kearney
Management Consultants
Paul Oyer, Associate
Professor, Economics, Stanford University
Adrian
Moore, Vice President, Reason Public Policy Institute
Concluding Remarks by David Yarnold, Editor
and Senior Vice President, San Jose Mercury News
The purpose of this Conference is to provide better understanding
of the process of employment outsourcing as a necessary element
of the optimal and fair globalization of international trade.
Measures needed to offset the inevitable disruption of individual
worker’s careers will be addressed and to re-orient expectations
of future employment. The intent of this Conference is to inform
the audience of current academic, governmental and professional
thinking in terms of economics and personnel utilization for
the long term.
Check In: 8:30 AM, Program: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM,
Members: $10, Nonmembers: $15, Students: Free
Location: Stanford Business School, Bishop Auditorium, 518 Memorial
Way, Stanford
Cosponsored by the Stanford Business School's Sloan Master's
Program
http://www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1053
From Dot-Com to Dot-Bomb: Does Silicon Valley Have a Future
Tapan Munroe, President, Munroe Consulting;
Author and Columnist, Contra Costa Times?
Thursday, October 14th
Check In & Reception: 6:30 PM, Dinner: 7:00 PM, Program:
7:30 PM
Dinner & Pgm: Members & Cosponsors: $30, Dinner &
Pgm: Nonmembers: $32, Pgm Only: Memb. & Stud.: Free Pgm
Only: Nonmembers: $7
Location: Scott’s Restaurant, 1333 N. California Blvd.,
Walnut Creek
Prepaid dinner reservations must be received by 5:00 PM on Wednesday,
October 13th
http://www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1055
Dealing with a Globalized Economy
Vinod K. Aggarwal,
Professor of Political Science, Business, and Public Policy,
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 20th
Check In: 11:30 AM, Program: 12:00 PM,
Members: Free, Nonmembers: $12, Students with ID: $5 Cosponsors:
$7
Location: At the Council, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd floor Conference
Room, San Francisco
Cosponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley,
and Center for the Pacific Rim, USF
http://www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1033
Opening the Door to Japan: Exploring the Automotive/IT Market
Masaaki Kanda, Governor of Aichi Prefecture
Yoshihiro Yasui, President of Brother Industries, Ltd Clifford
Somerville, Vice President of Dura Automotive Systems Max Rogers,
Global Director of Sales and Marketing, Delphi Corporation
Thursday, October 28th
http://www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1057
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the IRLE community, send a brief description (and Web link) to
Terry Huwe (thuwe@library.berkeley.edu).
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