The Essential Worker

Worker Democracy and Worker Productivity

A major source of oppression in industrial and post-industrial society is the restrictive and highly authoritarian nature of the workplace. One response is to democratize the workplace by increasing the participation of workers in making decisions and in choosing and evaluating managers as well as sharing in the ownership of the firm. These are not new ideas, and there are many examples of orga...

The mobile worker

The older worker

The roles that older workers play in labour markets has received a great deal of policy and academic scrutiny in response to economic crises and demographic change. As a starting point this focus has paradoxically resulted in insufficient attention to older workers themselves. The article is thus concerned with refocusing the agenda for research into the older worker. Building on an extensive l...

Feeding the Worker

The Supervisor-Worker pattern

Mobile agents and mobile computing have grown in importance recently. The SupervisorWorker pattern is an architectural pattern that helps architects solving the problem of protecting the mobile agent from leakage and tampering. The fundamental MasterSlave Pattern is widespread and heavily used in traditional applications. The SupervisorWorker pattern inherits many of the Master-Slave pattern’s ...