A flexible labour market is widely regarded as a key factor in encouraging economic growth and prosperity. In recent years some economies have successfully reformed their labour markets, making part-time and flexible hours easier, limiting the restrictive practices of trade unions, encouraging training and the enhancement of the skills of those in the labour market, coping with the changing age profile of the workforce and in other ways. Other economies have been less successful at labour market reform and continue to struggle with outdated structures and practices. This book discusses the key elements of labour market reform, contrasting a country where reforms have been successfully carried through, Australia, with a country where reforms have been less successful, Japan. At the same time, this book challenges the conventional view that Australia is the lucky country for all its workers ? given the rising hours worked for those in work and the difficulties for young people entering the labour market. Both countries also face issues in terms of an ageing population, and policy challenges in the design of safety nets and pension provision. The book thereby demonstrates to analysts of labour market reform worldwide the key elements of successful labour market reform, and the consequential effects when the reforms are carried through, or not.

A flexible labour market is widely regarded as a key factor in encouraging economic growth and prosperity. In recent years some economies have successfully reformed their labour markets, making part-time and flexible hours easier, limiting the restrictive practices of trade unions, encouraging training and the enhancement of the skills of those in the labour market, coping with the changing age profile of the workforce and in other ways. Other economies have been less successful at labour market reform and continue to struggle with outdated structures and practices. This book discusses the key elements of labour market reform, contrasting a country where reforms have been successfully carried through, Australia, with a country where reforms have been less successful, Japan. At the same time, this book challenges the conventional view that Australia is the lucky country for all its workers - given the rising hours worked for those in work and the difficulties for young people entering the labour market. Both countries also face issues in terms of an ageing population, and policy challenges in the design of safety nets and pension provision. The book thereby demonstrates to analysts of labour market reform worldwide the key elements of successful labour market reform, and the consequential effects when the reforms are carried through, or not.

Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these eight women echo the ever-growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front. Twenty-one-year-old Emily Quiner sought a way to join the war effort that would feed her heart and mind. Annie Cox wrote to her pro-slavery fiancE to staunchly defend her abolitionist principles. Sisters Susan Brown and Ann Waldo faced the unexpected devastation that each battle brought to families. In Such Anxious Hours, Jo Ann Daly Carr places this material in historical context, detailing what was happening simultaneously in the nation, state, and local communities. Civil War history enthusiasts will appreciate these enlightening perspectives that demonstrate the variety of experiences in the Midwest during the bloody conflict.

Change happens, whether we want it to or not. How we experience that change is completely up to us. Successfully MidAir provides ten real and specific tools that can be practically applied right in the moment to relieve stress, ease frustration, and deliberately have fun in the midst of whatever is going on in your life So, rather than your "midair" experience feeling turbulent, or frustrating, or even painful to you, you can choose to take advantage of those things to deliberately and powerfully create an amazing, joyful ride... right into the life you want Whether your struggle is in your relationships with other people (or yourself), or in your circumstances, these tools can help you to: 1. Open the way for things to shift dramatically, right where you stand. 2. Know what to do right in the moment to deliberately change whatever it is you are experiencing. 3. Recognize - and neutralize - three "monsters" that we all deal with in midair AND in our everyday life. 4. Understand exactly what the "problem" is, and watch as solutions seem to magically "just appear" for you. 5. Do you want to feel powerful - or empowered - in your life? Tool #5 helps you understand what P.O.W.E.R. really is, and how to live a genuinely empowered experience. 6. Choosing faith over fear is the way to go every time. Tool #6 helps you to stand anchored in faith so that fear can never knock you off balance for any length of time. 7. Literally change things by changing the story that you tell "about" those things. 8. INSTANTLY relieve stress and bring yourself to a place of clarity and feeling really, really good 9. Let go of whatever it is you're hanging onto so that you can reach forward, trusting completely that all is as it should be. 10. Ask yourself the most important question ever... Just the asking of the question changes how you feel about - and experience - whatever is going on. Every one of these tools is meant to be used in the moment, not to change your circumstances - because that is not possible - but to change "who you ARE" in those circumstances, which cannot help but to change things for you Even if you just pick one to use consistently, I promise that your life will never be the same If you want to feel more empowered and more in control of your life than ever before - without making yourself crazy with stress - then Successfully MidAir is a GREAT book for you

What if there are signals all around you trying to get your attention? What if these signals are there to support your deepest dreams for who you can be and what you can create in this world? What if life itself is quite simple and we humans make it burdensome, heavy, and a struggle by our choices? And what if the way we do this is counterintuitive? What if living in a state of joy is accessible to all who seek and choose it? And what if we are prompted throughout our lives to develop the ability to recognize how to live into the highest and best we can be with joy and grace? And what if the reason we don't is counterintuitive? What is possible for each of us individually and for societies, as a whole, when we intuitively follow inner wisdom over our fears and ego identities? Just maybe we will live into our dreams, our life's work, and the highest and best of who we are here to be. The path presents itself. Do you know how to recognize the signals? Do you want to?

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Like asking the eagle to lumber or bear to fly, you will never find your own graceful state of being by looking outward for direction. Grace appears when you step inward to your unique essence and walk your own path. (108) Humans Being is a book dedicated to all who long to find their voice, pursue their passion, and live more fulfilling, creative, and healthier lives. It offers a simple framework in the form of the Universal Soul Grid for reconnecting with unique purpose and voice and for recognizing unconscious choices that block creativity, insight, and lives of ease. The exercises are designed to provide practice fields for readers to engage at their own pace and to reinforce what it means to live in grace, listen to the heart, and lead a life of clarity and courage. The path to lives of ease and grace is available to all, and yet: Not all of us have been engaging all aspects of this path. But its influence and prompting in your life become clear when you look squarely at who you are becoming, the results of your choices, and the relative ease or difficulty of your life. The simple truth in your heart-in whatever form you recognize it-serves your own unique journey. As long as you remember that point, faith and courage more easily follow. The desire to open your eyes and see where you invest your energy to hold yourself back-for whatever reason-becomes a curiosity, rather than a failure. And the possibility of greatness and living your dreams emerges much more clearly. (p. 15)

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Ann Daly ranks among the most insightful, articulate dance critics and scholars writing today. Spanning the divide between journalism and scholarship, this collection offers a double-sighted view of dance in America from 1986 to the present, documenting the shift in experimental dance from formal to social concerns, and recording the expansion of dance studies in the academy from historical documentation to cultural criticism.
Daly examines performance art and visual art as they relate to and influence dance, with a look at the intersection of dance and history. Gender is the subject of the final section of the book. More than 80 reviews, features, essays, interviews and scholarly articles -- including extended considerations of Pina Bausch, Deborah Hay, Bill T. Jones and Ralph Lemon -- were originally published in venues ranging from High Performance to The New York Times to TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies.

This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the thought, politics and art of her time. Duncan's dancing earned her international fame and influenced generations of American girls and women, yet the romantic myth that surrounds her has left some questions unanswered: What did her audiences see on stage, and how did they respond? What dreams and fears of theirs did she play out? Why, in short, was Duncan's dancing so compelling? First published in 1995 and now back in print, Done into Dance reveals Duncan enmeshed in social and cultural currents of her time -- the moralism of the Progressive Era, the artistic radicalism of prewar Greenwich Village, the xenophobia of the 1920s, her association with feminism and her racial notion of "Americanness."