Aboriginal People and Labour Relations

Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market

Individual and Collective Regulation of Labour Relations

Proposals for the reform of labour legislation have been central to the reform agenda of international financial institutions, most particularly the World Bank, and have been pressed particularly on the governments of countries which formerly have had socialist or social democratic forms of labour market regulation. This reform agenda is based on a neo-liberal conception of the labour market, a...

Prevalence and perceptions of overweight and obesity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people in custody.

OBJECTIVE To describe prevalence of and risk factors for overweight, obesity and self-perceived weight gain of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian young people in custody at baseline and over 12 months of follow-up. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective cohort study of youths in custody in New South Wales, from August 2009, with follow-up at 3, 6 and 12 months. MAIN OUTCOME MEAS...

Cardiovascular risk among urban Aboriginal people.

OBJECTIVE To describe the results of a program for detecting high cardiovascular risk in an urban Aboriginal community. DESIGN Cardiovascular risk assessment program conducted between January 1998 and October 1999. Participants completed a questionnaire and underwent a physical assessment and biochemical tests. PARTICIPANTS 738 self-selected members of the Perth Aboriginal community (332 me...

Major burns: incidence, treatment and outcomes in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia.

US physician Martin Duke argues that it served as a badge of protection.* This idea also surfaced in Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith: ‘The Doctor, and the Doctor alone, was safe by night in the slum called “the Arbor”. His black bag was a pass. Policemen saluted him, prostitutes bowed to him without mockery, saloon-keepers called out “Evenin’ Doc” and hold-up men stood back in doorways to let...