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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is in the middle of a five-year hiring plan to increase the number of sworn officers in the department by 1,000 and achieve a force strength of more than 10,000 officers for the first time in its history. Thus far, working together with the City of Los Angeles Personnel Department's Public Safety Bureau (PSB), the LAPD is on track to achieve this ambitious goal. However, the personnel department and the LAPD have been operating close to the margin, often meeting their hiring quota at the very end of the month. In addition, the LAPD is under consent decrees that stipulate greater diversity in hiring its officers. This book assists the LAPD in achieving its recruiting and diversity goals by offering ways to improve productivity and efficiency in the recruiting process. It begins by identifying potential untapped local recruiting markets. It also provides a model of viable candidates that the LAPD and the personnel department can use to target its recruitment and to prioritize applicants while still maintaining its diversity hiring goal. Finally, it recommends ways to improve productivity of the PSB Background Investigation Division

"Second circulation publishing", the broadly defined publishing and cultural movement, independent of the authorities of the PRL and not subject to state censorship, was initiated in the autumn of 1976 by the community which opposed communist party rule in Poland. The author of the article offers a synthesis defining the notion of "second circulation", indicating its scope of influence and its reach, discussing its significance at the levels of community, cultural and political life, and its influence on the democratic changes in Poland and other Central and East European states in the late-1980s.

Queer theory by men / Janet Halley -- Theorizing yes : an essay on feminism, law, and desire / Katherine Franke -- The sexual family / Martha A. Fineman -- The sanitized workplace revisited / Vicki Schultz -- Queering sexual orientation : a call for theory as praxis / Francisco Valdes -- How queer theory makes neoliberalism sexy / Martha McCluskey -- Proper objects, different subjects and juridical horizons in radical legal critique / Tucker Culbertson and Jack Jackson -- A few words in favor of cultivating an incest taboo in the workplace / Mary Ann Case -- Care and feminists / Mary Becker -- Methodological descriptions : "feminist" and "queer" legal theories / Adam P. Romero -- The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure / Kenji Yoshino -- Black rights, gay rights, civil rights / Devon Carbado -- The transgender rights imaginary / Paisley Currah -- Compulsory monogamy and polyamorous existence / Elizabeth Emens -- This is not your father's autonomy : lesbian and gay rights from a feminist and relational perspective / Carlos Ball -- Compulsory matrimony / Ruthann Robson -- From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform / Anna Marie Smith -- Transgressive caretaking / Laura Kessler -- The troubled relationship of feminist and queer legal theory to strategic essentialism : theory/praxis, queer porn, and Canadian anti-discrimination law /Lara Karaian -- Poststructuralism on trial / Ann Scales -- Queer victory, feminist defeat? : sodomy and rape in Lawrence v. Texas / Lynne Huffer

The article describes production of the land-management project by means of geodetic engineering. It sets a complex of measures and actions to provide geodetic and cadastral system of the country. Geo-information technologies are widely used in the city and land cadastral. In the article the project activity is connected with interests of both the market so as industry. The model can be used as the basis to develop privat technologies wich needed to solve the problems set for privat and state licensed organisations. This article refers strictly to the Land Code of the Kazakhstan Respublic. It establishes conditions to keep the land cadastral, its content, competences of the government specially autorised bodyies. ; The article describes production of the land-management project by means of geodetic engineering. It sets a complex of measures and actions to provide geodetic and cadastral system of the country. Geo-information technologies are widely used in the city and land cadastral. In the article the project activity is connected with interests of both the market so as industry. The model can be used as the basis to develop privat technologies wich needed to solve the problems set for privat and state licensed organisations. This article refers strictly to the Land Code of the Kazakhstan Respublic. It establishes conditions to keep the land cadastral, its content, competences of the government specially autorised bodyies.

Trade unions will oppose the employment of temporary agency workers if it is a move to replace workers or to curb union power. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the employment of agency workers if it leads to higher wages for their members. Using British data from 1998 and 2004, we find no evidence for a negative association between trade union activity and the hiring of agency workers. Wages are typically higher in unionized workplaces; however, the trade union premium is lower in the presence of agency workers. Our results suggest that trade unions cannot effectively oppose the hiring of agency workers.

Introduction: Works according to design -- Cowboys and patriots: how the West was won -- For your benefit, in our image: the centering of white men in social justice movements -- The Ivy League and the tax eaters: white men's assault on higher education -- We have far too many Negroes: white America's bitter dependency on people of color -- Fire the women: the convenient use and abuse of women in the workplace -- Socialists and quota queens: when women of color challenge the political status quo -- Go fucking play: football and the fear of black men -- Conclusion: Can white manhood be more than this?

Explores nationalist rhetoric & identity in industrial unions of the 1930s & 1940s for evidence of the union culture & politics, particularly regarding race. The language of this nationalism, or Americanism, endorsed a union culture & politics that failed to address the needs & demands of black workers. The case of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), with attention to the organizing campaign at Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn & occupancy of Sojourner Truth Homes, illustrates how Americanism was used to set limits on racial equality within the union. Working-class Americanism played an important role in supporting arguments of white union members against black demands in the community, union, & workplace. L. Collins Leigh

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to describe registered nurses not working at all and those working in non-nursing compared to those working in nursing. Factors associated with registered nurses not working or working in non-nursing employment were examined in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, market factors, and political factors. Background & Significance: Empirical and anecdotal literature have demonstrated an exodus of registered nurses from the nursing profession. This study has policy implications for addressing these workplace losses. Conceptual Framework: This research was guided by economic labor market theory. Research Design & Methods: Secondary data from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses with a sample of 35,635 nurses was used for the analysis. A two-stage least squares model was estimated using a predicted market wage for all nurses in the sample and univariate probit equations were used. Key Findings: Nurses who worked in non-nursing and those who did not work at all were different from nurses who work in non-nursing. The main reason nurses gave for working in non-nursing was dissatisfaction with the nursing workplace. Salary was not a significant predictor controlling for other factors. Male nurses and nurses over the age of 45 were more likely to work in non-nursing than female nurses and younger nurses. Nurses with young children in the home, those with at least a baccalaureate degree in nursing, and those who lived in politically liberal counties were more likely to be employed in nursing than nurses without children, those in politically conservative states, and those with lesser education. Working in non-nursing was contingent upon not participating in the nursing market. Implications for Health Policy: New policy remedies are needed to recruit new nurses to nursing and to retain those who are leaving the profession. Continued salary enhancements in the absence of real changes in the nursing workplace will not contribute significant long-term solutions to the current nursing shortage.

This article introduces the concept of banal populism to emphasize the intrinsic ambiguity of the relationship between democracy and populism in representative politics. The article expands on three approaches to populism, based on ideology, style and logic to suggest a framework for the study of articulations of banal populism in the everyday political communication between the people and the mediated elite, devoid of normative presuppositions. Empirically, the article shows how the rhetorical figure of the reality people [Verklighetens folk] has been used differently by three political parties in Sweden; i. e the right-wing populist party New Democracy (NyD), in parliament between 1991 and 1994, the Christian Democratic Party (KD) which is currently in the government and also by the nationalist-populist party the Sweden Democrats (SD), which gained 20 seats in the parliament by 2010. The article concludes that the struggle of who the people are and what they wish for is a permanent companion nested in the everyday communication of the votes.

Contemporary multicultural issues in Europe raise the question whether the overlap between the non-discrimination regimes of the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe in the field of public employment may lead to conflicting case law. Would the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) address potential sex, race and religious discrimination in a similar manner or would the Courts take a different approach? This study consists of three parts. Firstly, an analysis is presented of the EU non-discrimination Directives 2006/54, 2000/43 and 2000/78, and the ECJ's assessment in cases of alleged sex, race and religious discrimination in the public workplace. Secondly, the non-discrimination provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the right to freedom of religion are studied. Further, the ECtHR's assessment in cases involving potential discrimination in the public workplace based on sex, race and religion are examined. In the final part a comparison is made between the provisions and the assessment of the ECJ and the ECtHR. Besides an examination of European legislation, case law and academic literature, this research also uses a legal case study to explore the similarities and differences between the non-discrimination regimes. Accordingly, the theory is again discussed, but now in light of a much debated issue in Europe: the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public employment. The result of the study is a detailed explanation of the relevant similarities and differences between the approaches of the two Courts to claims of discrimination.

Nurses routinely confront uncertainties surrounding the risk of occupationally transmitted HIV, particularly in the context of hospital AIDS care. Nurses respond to their perception of this HIV risk with a mixture of concern, caution, and care. This study empirically examines HIV risk perception based on a survey of hospital nurses in U.S. cities with high HIV seroprevalence rates. There is variation in the degree to which hospital nurses worry about HIV at work, despite widespread use of universal precautions. Occupational HIV risk perception is associated with knowledge of workplace transmission vectors, comfort with AIDS patients, AIDS care experience, and working conditions. Results show that nurses on AIDS care units are more habituated to HIV risk, whereas those with less AIDS care knowledge, tolerance, and experience are more concerned about HIV Consequently, nurses who worry less about being infected with HIV are more willing to perform AIDS care, predict plans to continue AIDS care in the future, and report more equal treatment of people with AIDS. Supportive workplaces which reduce stress and emotional exhaustion, together with enhanced and improved training for hospital nurses, may temper provider concerns and improve the continuity and quality of care.

In our latest paper published in Safety Science, 'Working in heat: Contrasting heat management approaches among outdoor employees and contractors', we examine the experience of workplace heat exposure for two groups of affected outdoor workers: contracted pieceworkers in bicycle delivery and permanently employed municipal workers in parks and road maintenance. We conducted surveys and in-person interviews over several weeks at the height of the Sydney summer, and our findings reflect the well-established nexus between outside temperature, humidity and work effort in producing heat stress.
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Due to the current shortage of medical doctors in Germany, hospital administrations increasingly recruit physicians from abroad to meet their demand. Relaxed migration policies and access regulations to the medical profession enable the formal recognition of these physicians' qualifications. However, the question remains whether these measures suffice to ensure a smooth transfer of professional knowledge and skills. Research on the migration of highly skilled migrants has thus far predominantly focused on macro-structural aspects, whereas their actual integration at the workplace remains large