大力推进上海市社区工会建设

上海工会在市委的领导下，根据上海产业结构的调整，以及城市管理体制不断完善的实际，围绕加强社区工会建设，进行了积极有效的探索。 　　一、社区工会建设是构筑特大型城市工会工作新格局的重要标志 　　把工会工作的目光投向社区，是新形势对工会工作提出的新任务，这主要体现在以下四方面。 　　1.加强社区工会建设是进一步巩固党的执政基础，不断提高党的执政水平的需要。当前，越来越多的经济和社团组织在社区落户，离 (退 )休人员、下岗人员、待业人员、外地务工人员也大量进入社区；随着人们生产方式、生活方式和活动方式的转变，…     

发挥社区工会作用 促进社会管理创新——关于南京市社区工会工作的调查与思考

城市社区工会工作主要是依托社区平台,协同党政联动,在服务社区的各项工作和活动中发挥工会的职能作用.重视发挥城市社区工会的职能作用,对于推进工会组织的群众化民主化建设、促进社区居民和劳动者的全面发展、促进加强和创新社会管理、构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要意义.城市社区工会工作应当融入社区全局,协同党政联动,依托社区平台,体现工会职能,建立完善群众化民主化的社区工会工作组织和工作机制.上级工会要切实加强对城市社区工会工作的重视、指导和服务工作.     

社区工会的实践与思考

社区工会工作是一项全新的工作。组建社区工会是加强社区建设、维护工人阶级团结统一、巩固党的阶级基础、执政地位、履行工会职能和加强基层政权建设的需要。开展社区工会工作,没有现成的模式和经验可供借鉴,必须坚持思想观念的创新和工作方法的创新。南京市总工会在社区工会建设上进行了大胆尝试并取得了实践经验,并就社区工会的发展方向提出了创新性意见。     

夯实工会工作基础加强基层工会建设

"组织起来,切实维权"是夯实工会工作基础,加强基层工会建设的基础工程.夯实基础要从工会小组入手,小组建设是工会这座大厦的根基.基层工会工作是工会的基础,职工群众在基层,只有做好基层工会工作,工会大厦的基础才牢固,工会才能真正成为职工群众依赖的组织,以激发工会活力,推动全面工作的创新和发展.     

发挥工会“大学校”作用 为建设统一坚强智能电网提供人才支撑

工会是党和政府联系职工群众的桥梁和纽带。国家电网公司历来高度重视工会工作,加强党对工会工作的领导,强调以党的建设带动工会建设,为工会工作的开展创造了良好的条件。     

重视基层 加强基层 活跃基层

工会的基层组织是工会组织体系的基础,处在第一线,时刻与广大职工群众打交道,基层工会工作状态与职工群众息息相关。“上面千条线,下面一根针”,工会的各项工作都要通过基层工会来落实,工会的作用最终也要通过基层工会的活动来体现。以“三个代表”重要思想统揽工会工作,开创工会工作新局面,基层工会承担着重要职责。因此,只有重视发挥基层工会作用,加强基层工会组织建设,活跃基层工会工作,把工会的基层组织建设得坚强有力,使之真正成为职工群众信赖的“职工之家”,才能进一步密切工会与职工群众的联系,不断增强工会组织的吸引力凝聚力,在党…     

现阶段工会自身体制改革应着眼于活动方式的转变

实现工会的群众化和民主化,是推进工会自身体制改革的目标,而转变活动方式则是深化这一过程的基本环节。工会活动方式的转变,应当通过工会工作的原则,工作内容、工作作风和工作手段得到体现。一、根据职工群众大多数人的意愿和要求开展活动,是各级工会组织必须坚持的原则该原则的基本内涵是:职工群众是工会工作的主体,职工群众的普遍意向和要求是工会工作的出发点。我国工会历史实践正反两方面的经验教训表明,什么时候坚持这—原则,工会工作就能够得到职工     

建立健全“四个机制”充分发挥乡镇、村工会“三个作用”

近年来，为了适应城乡结构调整和城镇化建设的需要，更好地服务基层职工群众，唐山市总工会认真贯彻“组织起来、切实维权”的工作方针，把加强乡镇（街道）、村（社区）工会工作作为加强工会基层组织建设重要内容，经过四年的努力，实现了全市226个乡镇（街道）、5542个村（社区）工会组织健全、会员发展顺畅、工作开展正常的目标。     

关于社区工会工作的探索与思考

以社区为依托组建地域性工会 ,是工会工作在城市管理体制改革中遇到的新课题 ,开拓的新领域。东城区社区工会将工会工作融入社区建设 ,在推动社区内新建企业建会 ,维护社区内企业职工合法权益等方面做出了积极探索     

发挥工会在企业文化建设中的作用(中)

二、工会在企业文化建设中的作用、任务和工作途径 　　在我国企业文化建设中,各级工会组织做了大量工作,对推动和促进我国企业文化的发展起到了积极作用。工会参与企业文化建设是工会工作的重要内容之一。各级工会要继续高度重视这项工作,充分发挥工会自身的优势,通过参与企业文化建设,努力提高工会工作的整体水平。 　　1.工会参与企业文化建设的必要性与重要性。 　　工会参与企业文化建设是由工会的性质和地位决定的。职工群众的理想信念、精神状态和人心向背,直接关系到建设有中国特色社会主义事业的成败。工会是职工自愿结合的…     

Women,Science and Culture: Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical

The Victorian periodical press offers unique insights into many diverse areas of nineteenth-century experience, and the complex relations between gender, science and culture in particular, yet it has been consistently marginalized as a primary resource in academic study. The Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical (SciPer) project at the universities of Sheffield and Leeds is creating a new point of access to a wide range of non-specialist periodicals across the century by means of a fully searchable electronic index. By detailing the entire contents of each journal, and not just those articles that have a clear scientific relevance, it becomes clear that science formed a fundamental and integral part of nineteenth-century culture. The electronic index, moreover, will include hypertext cross-reference links that will allow the user to identify a dialogic pattern of encounters between ostensibly diverse articles, rather than only to browse in a simple chronological mode. By adopting this innovative approach, the SciPer database will reveal the manifold intertextual relations between the fictional works of women writers like Elizabeth Gaskell and the scientific articles that often appeared in the pages of the same magazines, and will show that writers of both sexes and across several different genres actively engaged in vibrant interdisciplinary debates concerning scientific issues in a forum provided by the periodical. Although the SciPer database itself is not specifically focused on issues of gender, the index will include several periodicals aimed explicitly at a female readership and, by providing access to titles still rarely utilized in modern scholarship, it will offer further insights into the important contemporary debates about women and science, as well as the more subtle ways, in which gendered imagery was employed within scientific discourse. This article details some critical findings from Punch , The English Womans Domestic Magazine , Cornhill Magazine and the Review of Reviews .     

Carnal teachings: raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice

This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation of raunch in analyzing Yo! Majesty, a hip hop group comprised of black female emcees who openly describe their sexual desire for women, and explores how the queer youth of color she works with have responded to their music. Working beyond the unexamined moralisms that give critiques of raunch culture their legitimacy, the author argues that Yo! Majesty's raunch aesthetics transmit queer and feminist teachings. While celebrating carnal pleasures, these artists critique heterosexism, subvert narratives about the incompatibility of belief in Christ and queer sexualities, and trouble notions concerning the emancipation of coming out of the closet and declaring a stable homosexual identity. In demonstrating how raunch aesthetics generate consciousness raising, the author discusses how her youth participants critically read and consume hip hop while negotiating unwieldy meanings of sexuality and gender presentation.     

Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law

This article seeks to identify and address the normative void that resides at the heart of postmodernist-feminist theory, and to propose a philosophical framework – beyond postmodernism, but incorporating its central insights – for thinking through the normative questions with which feminists are inevitably confronted in their engagements with positive law. Two varieties of postmodernist-feminism are identified and critically analysed: the ‘corporeal feminism’ of Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, which seeks to ground feminist critical practice in the irruptive capacities of the material body considered as an arte fact of social construction; and the deconstructionist feminism of Drucilla Cornell, for whom ‘the feminine’ is an indeterminate but disruptive force beyond its construction in law and in other social sites. The first component of the argument elaborated here is that each of these approaches ultimately reduces to a form of aestheticism which is incapable of generating a worthwhile and workable feminist approach to the restructuring of politics and law. The second component of the argument involves a return to aesthetics, in particular to the philosophical aesthetics of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Kant’s aesthetic philosophy, it will be suggested, yields a framework of concepts which, duly re-manipulated, could speak to the very concerns that have inspired postmodernist-feminism: how to attend to (bodily) particularity while avoiding the dangers associated with ‘essentialism’; and how to theorise the propensity of the unrepresentable power of the feminine to exceed both embodied human capacities and the confining rein of socially privileged rationalities. Crucially, however it also responds to a set of preoccupations – those of the feminist lawyer – that cannot be accommodated by postmodernism: how to translate embodied experience into (legal) norms; generalise from the particular; seek consensus; and codify an endless potentiality in the form of law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Unexpected: Bionic Woman at the Millennium

Wilfred Bion's A Memoir of the Future provides a point of departure for feminist thinking about the millennium. Bion problematizes hopes for the future and associates thought with catastrophic change. Women play an unexpected role in Bion's experimental autobiography, posing provocative questions and unsettling the status quo . Since Bion has little to say about women in his clinical writings, A Memoir sheds light on his thinking and on the post-Kleinian culture of the 1970s. Book I of A Memoir depicts a class- and sex-nightmare played out between men and women, and women and women, in an age of anxiety whose setting appears to be the fascist 'pacification' of Middle England during an unspecified period. In this hallucinatory drama, all encounters are reduced to a brutal fiction of dominance and submission. The violence of the action suggests the primitive mental world of psychosis. Book II of A Memoir satirizes 'the brilliance of masculine thought' through the voices and criticisms of women. But this is the purgatorial movement of Bion's autobiography, inhabited by 'idées mères' (untransformed beta-elements) and haunted by the ghosts of Bion's traumatic war-time experience. A monstrous plot is hatched to kill primitive, fascistic Man, who retaliates and takes the female spoils. Is this the prelude to catastrophic change? Book III stages a country-house debate between different characters who represent aspects of Bion's personality, recapitulating the concerns of his later writing. The debate includes a meditation on childbirth as compared to war trauma, but Bion takes his distance from feminine intuition or common sense. Women fight on both sides of the barriers in the Bionic revolution - becoming, however, figures for the 'unexpected' and precursors of emotional upheaval. The gendering of millennial thought in Bion's Memoir provides an opportunity to scrutinize our own unthought fantasies of change.     

The Between

Thinking with this special issue's group of feminist thinkers – some artists and others scholars – this introduction makes a strong case for co-authorship and a more collaborative humanities, while also insisting that the couple form – that stalwart object of queer and feminist theory – is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity, but rather, a field ripe for analysis. Situated squarely within performance studies, this introduction pivots away from questions of ontology and toward method and performativity, in order to ask: what modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity, if indeed it is an infinity, between one and two?     

Other forms of conviviality: The best and least of which is our daily care and the host of which is our collaborative work

In this collaboratively written essay, artists Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos take a queer materialist feminist approach to the entanglement of dependency and reproductive labor, disability, intimacy, and the impossibility of exchanging incommensurables. The text merges the authors' experiences receiving and providing one another care with their artistic practices, and includes instructive performance scores for past, rather than future, events.     

Men in Skirts

There are signs that the wearing of skirts by men appears to be on the increase in the West. Connor's essay provides a series of historical reflections on the signification and cultural phenomenology of male and female apparel. The first appearance of bifurcated dress in the late mediaeval period is considered, along with the struggle between men and women for command of lateral space during the seventeenth century in Europe, as attested to by commentators like John Bulwer and John Evelyn. Explications are offered of the thematics of the fringe and the pocket, as they are dramatized in trousers and skirts, as well as of the logic of lightness and of the pendant. Trousers, Connors concludes, have never lost their fanciful associations with utility, practicality and rationality; they are the signs of occupation, of being taken up in what you do, rather than consumed in what you are. The political victory of the trousered over the untrousered races (Romans, Scots, Indians etc.) is confirmed by its inversion in male masochist fantasies of 'petticoat government', from the late nineteenth century onwards.     

Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind

Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame – a set of assumptions – that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greater voice in food production and fairer access to the food produced.     

Here be monsters: a choreomaniac's companion to the danse macabre

Consider this a vade mecum: an invitation to “walk with me” through more or less uncanny terrains of worlds in the making in search, of(f) course, of monsters. The search will be delving into the areas of “creepypasta:” pieces of cursed prose and pictures that circulate online, waiting to contaminate and possess the next reader. Using a theoretical framework of posthuman and feminist theory, not least the work done by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway, this vade mecum asks what it might mean to engage ethically with that which is not supposed to exist, but which haunts us nonetheless. In other words: what does it mean to move, live and engage with spectres in digital times?     

Trauma as Site of Identity: The Case of Jeanette Winterson and Frida Kahlo

B y taking gender seriously, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa appeared to reverse the trend set by many liberation movements elsewhere: namely, women being mobilized as agents in struggles around class and race, yet denied the imperative of addressing gender subordination. Shortly after coming to power, the ANC adopted a national strategy for advancing gender equality. By doing so it demonstrated that it could rise above the limitations of its erstwhile 'woman question' position (Beall et al. 1989) and learn from the experience of other countries that had tried to institutionalize gender policies and structures. This in turn served to place South Africa at the cutting edge of experience in state-initiated gender policies and 'national machineries' for women. Nevertheless, South Africa's National Machinery for Advancing Gender Equality merits critical scrutiny, both in terms of its intrinsic aims and objectives and in relation to its potential for making an impact, given the development policy context of contemporary South Africa. Drawing on research conducted in South Africa over a number of years--during the 1980s (Beall et al. 1987) and, more recently, since 1997 (Beall 1997, 1998), it is possible to consider what lessons are to be learned from the institutionalization of gender-sensitive policy and practice in a complex institutional environment.