Miners' Rights
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Issue 35, p. 35
ISSN: 1839-3039
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In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Issue 35, p. 35
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, p. 463-482
ISSN: 1472-3425
The UK government places considerable emphasis on the targeting of resources to areas most in need. For the Single Regeneration Budget and other purposes, use is made of the Index of Local Deprivation (ILD), formerly the Index of Local Conditions (ILC), to identify eligible areas. In this paper we show that this index suffers from such serious structural defects that it is unsuitable for the purpose to which it is put. These defects include the scale dependency of the index, the inappropriate treatment of positive and negative numbers, the unequal weights assigned to the indicators used and the difficulties introduced by using a nonlinear structure for the index. Recent decisions to modify the ILD do not address these defects and one change that has been mooted would exaggerate the scale bias. Suggestions are made for what should be done in replacing and supplementing the ILD to provide a better basis for assessing relative need.
In: Environment & planning: international journal of urban and regional research. C, Government & policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, p. 463-482
ISSN: 0263-774X
In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Volume 24, Issue 1
ISSN: 1043-1578, 0094-7571
Assesses the labour provisions of NAFTA, along with its implications for labour policy under President Clinton. Concludes that not only do the labour provisions do little to enhance the lives of the relevant workers, it also appears that the workers, who are predominantly female, are being fired for union organizing activities.