The paper presented three related issues. A first objective was to shed light on some of the facts of the employment impacts of trade and investments abroad, including highly controversial themes as off-shoring of the production of goods and services. A second objective was to debate the options...

Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

Contains proposals for combating European unemployment by a citizenship income guarantee coupled with community unionism and collective profit sharing.

Contains proposals for combating European unemployment by means of a citizenship income guarantee coupled with community unionism and collective profit sharing.

Shows that since the late 1970s wage distribution is shifting downhill and becoming more skewed, with a proliferation of low-income employment.