Climate change is now widely acknowledged as one of the great - if not the greatest - challenges facing humanity in the coming decades. Through its impact on average temperature, precipitations and sea levels, it will endanger the livelihood of hundreds of millions and impose increasing costs on...

The Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) has just published a new issue of the International Journal of Labour Research, entitled Crisis: Causes, Prospects and Alternatives. According to the journal's editor Pierre Laliberté, "this issue deals with one of the major challenges facing today's...