关于非公有制企业工会工作的思考

随着经济体制改革的深化。企业的性质也发生了变化．多数公有制企业转变为非公有制．企业工会组织的作用和地位也发生了不同程度的变化。由于非公有制企业工会组织的职能作用发挥不好，职工利益的维护难以落实．职工与企业的矛盾日益突出。如何解决好这些问题。     

对工会组织建设问题的思考

随着非公有制经济的迅猛发展 ,职工队伍结构发生了明显变化 ,工会组织工作出现了许多诸如工会会员流失、工会主席兼职、新建企业建会难等新情况和新问题。为此 ,必须从实际出发 ,努力研究和探索工会组织建设的新方法和新途径 ,切实加强工会组织建设。     

新形势下产业工会地位与作用的思考——工会在出租汽车行业的维权工作实践与探索

在市场经济不断深化和不断成熟的进程中,作为市场经济最为核心的产业结构和企业组织结构也出现了全新的变化,特别是出现了企业规模小型化和所有制多元化的变化.由此,工会组织以及维权方式变革也成为必然,这种变革最为重要的组成部分之一,就是强化产业性工会组织建设,推进产业化、行业化维权.     

按照“扩大覆盖面、增强凝聚力”要求进一步加强工会组织工作

一、近年来工会组织工作的主要成效与经验工会组织工作是工会全部工作的基础。工会组织工作水平的高低,不仅关系到工会组织的覆盖面和会员队伍的发展壮大,关系到工会干部队伍素质的高低,更关系到我国职工队伍和工会组织的团结统一,关系到党的阶级基础、群众基础和执政地位的巩固。近年来,各级工会按照党中央的要求,大力加强工会组织工作,取得了明显成效。(一)工会组织体系不断健全,工会组织的覆盖面进一步扩大。各级工会针对我国职工队伍发展变化的情况,适应新建企业大量集中在乡镇、街道的实际,及时把工作重心向县、区以下转移,不断加大乡…     

试论租赁制企业的工会工作

企业实行租赁后,工会的职能和工作重点都发生了哪些相应的变化?如何根据变化了的实际情况加强工会工作?这是各级工会组织,特别是已经实行租赁制企业的工会组织所面临的一个新课题。因此有必要从理论与实践的结合上进行深入地探讨。一、租赁制企业的性质与特点目前,我国理论界普遍认为,企业实行租赁制并不改变企业的所有制性质。但是企业内部体制,分配结构,以及人与人之间的关系等将发生相应的变化,呈现出自身的特点。主要是:     

以“三个代表”重要思想为指导全面推进乡镇工会建设

近年来，江苏省各级工会把建立乡镇工会组织作为实现“三个最大限度”的首要环节，下大力气抓乡镇一级工会组织建设，江苏省区划调整后的１３７２个乡镇全部建立了工会组织，并形成了以乡镇工会为龙头，向村、企业延伸和拓展的“小三级”工会组织网络。几年来，全省各级工会组织根据本地区乡镇经济的发展，以及各类新建企业经济关系、劳动关系和职工队伍构成的变化情况，贯彻“紧紧围绕乡镇经济发展这个中心，以加强法制建设为基础，以加快新建企业工会组建为突破口，以突出维护职能为主线，全面加强乡镇工会建设，在推进乡镇改革、发展、稳…     

关于国有企业改制过程中工会组织建设情况的调研报告

为全面了解涟源市市属以上国有改制企业工会组织建设情况，涟源市总工会于2009年10～11月对全市市属以上国有改制企业采取全面普查、问卷调查和座谈专访相结合的方式进行了调研。通过调研，深入了解我市国有改制企业工会组织建设状况，分析研究国有改制企业工会组织建设出现的新情况、新问题，探讨进一步加强改制企业工会组织建设的方式方法，不断夯实工会组织基础。     

创新企业工会工作的理论思考与实践

企业工会是工会组织的基础,也是工会各项具体实践活动的直接组织者。企业工会是与广大职工群众联系最紧密、最直接的工会组织层级,因此如何创新企业工会工作思路、增强企业工会活力,不仅是工会组织自身改革的重要内容,同时也是实现工会组织起来、切实维权的重要途径。     

努力探索劳务派遣用工企业的工会工作新途径

我国加入WTO后,在开发区出现了多种用工形式。特别是近年来出现的劳务派遣用工,使得劳动关系再次出现新变化,给开发区工会工作提出了新课题。一、根据劳务派遣企业和员工的特点,积极探索建立工会组织目前,北京经济技术开发区的企业中已有约20%采用了劳务派遣的用工形式,使用派遣员工近万人。在劳务派遣工所服务的企业中,有的建立了工会组织,多数(未在开发区注册)尚未建立工会组织。在已建工会企业,多数将劳务派遣工视同于本企业工会会员一样进行管理,吸收他们参加工会的活动,享受相同工会会员待遇;部分企业则没有包括这部分职工。在未建立…     

寓维权于和谐之中

当企业劳动关系矛盾激化时,政治家首先想到的是“该企业有没有工会组织,如果有,是否发挥作用”,如此高看工会组织,绝不是政治家对工会组织的偏爱,而是时代已经赋予工会组织新的历史使命。     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.     

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.     

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?     

The Impersonal Strategy: Re-visiting Virginia Woolf's Position in The Common Reader Essays

The concept of impersonality as a writer's strategy has been exposed to misinterpretations that either fail to exhaust its full meaning and deposit an unequal amount of attention on all components of the term or, in the worst case, tend to distort its true elements. In relation to Virginia Woolf's criticism, in particular, it is a critical commonplace that the author employed an impersonal position in order not to fully materialise her feminist vision, but to shy away from explicitly expressing her feminist convictions and openly supporting women's rights. Indicative of this is the criticism that suggests disapproval of Woolf's reluctance to side with her own gender and declare the power of female personality.

The aim here is to challenge such critical views, separate the discussion of impersonality from its association with that of androgyny, and re-visit the issue of Woolf's employment of the impersonal strategy. I examine two of Woolf's essays on nineteenth-century women writers included in her first volume of The Common Reader and offer an analysis from both a gender-oriented and a genderless angle. Woolf's strong affinity with female conditions of oppression, her modernist convictions, her need to compromise with the male-dominated context of the time and her concurrent urge to co-operate with the common reader of an unspecified sex for the sake of artistic creation reveal more complex reasons behind her intentions than those examined by critics so far.     

The Liquefaction of Desire: Music,Water and Femininity in Victorian Aestheticism

This article reconsiders Victorian images of mermaids and sirens through a detailed examination of two images: Frederic Leighton's Lieder ohne Worte (1861, oil on canvas, Tate Britain) and Edward Burne-Jones's The Depths of the Sea (1886, oil on canvas, private collection). It demonstrates that the themes of water, music and femininity were entwined in the Victorian imagination, by setting these two paintings within the context of Victorian artistic, literary and cultural production. It shows that musical images were prevalent in the emerging Aesthetic movement. Musical subjects freed artists and audiences from the conventions of narrative interpretation, and allowed them instead to concentrate on exploring mood and colour.

Pictures of mermaids add a further twist to the Aesthetic preoccupation with music. This article reveals that mermaids made explicit the underlying connection between musical performance and sensuality. It also suggests that the idiosyncratic depiction of the mermaid by Burne-Jones and the ambiguous sexuality of Leighton's figures could be read as symptomatic of changing conceptions of desire. It argues that these images embodied the shift from ardour to libido. In other words, love was no longer described as burning and fixed, but as fluid and shifting. This transformation in the way desire was theorised was most urgently presented in Freud's Three Essays on Sexuality (1905). However, this article suggests that the same ideas were being made visible in Aesthetic art and writing from the mid-nineteenth century.     

Beyond the Millennium: Black Women's Writing

Nasta's piece forms part of an oral contribution to the plenary session of the conference in which a variety of speakers discussed the many questions that the conference had raised. It focuses specifically on the location and history of black women's writing in Britain and attempts to address issues that have dominated critical and theoretical discussion for some years. The question as to how far we have moved on in our reading and assessment of these literatures is discussed; also the fact that perhaps debates we now see as being contemporary were also current in the experiences of earlier representations of Britain from a black or Asian perspective. Nasta makes some tentative suggestions in terms of how we might move forward.