Catalogue of publications 1995 of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

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CATALOGUE
PUBLICATIONS
1995
European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions CATALOGUE
PUBLICATIONS
1995
European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Loughlinstown House, Shankill, Co. Dublin, Ireland Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1995
ISBN 92-827-4057-9
© European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1995
For rights of translation or reproduction, applications should be made to the Director, European
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Loughlinstown House, Shankill,
Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Printed in the United Kingdom. EF/95/09/EN Contents
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions ... .5
About this catalogue 7
Classified list
1 Information booklets 9
2 New technology 13
3 Biotechnology8
4 New forms of work and activity/telework 20
5 Work organisation 22
6 Wage payment systems4
7 Economic evaluation of working time and of working conditions 25
8 Industrial relations6
9 Worker participation8
10 Shiftwork 3
11 Time studies7
12 Safety and health9
13 Hazardous wastes 43
14 Transport/commuting5
15 Urban and social environment6
16 Unemployment 51
17 Women
18 Stress4
19 Retirement/the elderly ' 5
20 Young people7
21 General directories and periodical publications 58
Title index 61
Order form9
List of sales agents Inside back cover The European Foundation for the Improvement
of Living and Working Conditions
The Foundation is an autonomous Community (¡ii) problems peculiar to certain categories
body established by a Regulation of the Council of workers;
(iv) long-term aspects of improvement of the of Ministers of the European Communities which
came into force on 26 May 1975. environment;
(v) the distribution of human activities in
The creation of the Foundation was the result of space and in time.
the joint deliberations between the social
partners, the governments of the Member States
and the Community institutions, on the ways and Research
means of solving the ever-growing problems
associated with the improvement of living and Within the provisions of the regulation, plans for
working conditions. the Foundation's activities are drawn up by the
Directorate and staff. The plans are set out in a
series of published four-year programmes, on The Foundation recognised that problems
which annual work programmes are then based. associated with improving living and working
conditions were growing more numerous and
complex, that Community action to resolve them The Foundation's first four-year programme
should be built on scientifically based (1977-80) began by mainly examining working
information, and that the social partners should conditions. The second four-yeare
be associated with such action. (1981- 84) moved towards a greater emphasis
on living conditions to create better balance
between the two areas. This balance was The Foundation is located in Ireland at the
particuarly reflected in the 1985-88 programme following address:
and has continued to be so in the following
programmes. European Foundation for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions
Loughlinstown House Research initiated by the Foundation is
Shankill contracted out to research institutes within each
of the Member States. Many of the research Co. Dublin, Ireland
Telephone [phone] projects are carried out in several countries
simultaneously to obtain a Community Telex 30726 EURF El
dimension and facilitate cross-national Fax [phone]
comparisons. The Foundation tries to promote
innovations and develop ideas emerging from
the research which might be used by the
Community institutions, national governments,
and the social partners atl and European Aims
level.
The Foundation aims to contribute to the
planning and establishment of a better quality of The Foundation cooperates closely with a large
life by providing those in a position to influence number of national research institutes and
policy with essential knowledge and information. maintains active contact with many European
In particular it is concerned with: and international bodies concerned with the
improvement of living and working conditions. In
(i) man at work: all its work it seeks to maintain the highest
(ii) the organisation of work and particularly standards of objectivity, relevance, timeliness
and practicality. job design; THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION
The publications of the Foundation
News from the Foundation is a bi-monthly The Foundation has published some 400
newsletter which both highlights the activities of research reports, many in a number of language
the Foundation and selectively covers other versions. Other types of publications of the
Foundation include surveys of the results of work in progress in Europe on themes relevant
to the Foundation's aims. It is published in all research on particular subjects, proceedings of
nine official languages of the Community, and is conferences, bibliographies, reference books
and glossaries, newsletters, working papers, available free of charge.
work programmes and annual reports.
Specialised Newsletters are published which
reflect major areas of the Foundation's work, eg. Consolidated reports summarise each
BEST (Bulletin of European studies on time -programme of studies, which usually covers
formerly Bulletin ofn shiftwork topics), several countries. These reports normally
Hygeia (newsletter for the European Year of appear in parallel versions in a variety of the
safety, hygiene and health protection at work) official languages of the Community. Separate
and P+ (European participation monitor). National reports, or other individual reports on
which Consolidated reports are based may be
published in one or more languages, or may be The publications of the Foundation since its
classed as working papers (see below). inception are listed in this catalogue together
with those expected to be published by the end
of 1994. The Foundation also maintains an Information booklets are a series of
archive of working papers in Dublin - original publications in all nine official languages of the
research reports which will have normally served Community, and launched to describe concisely
as source material for other publications of the and make known the main findings of
Foundation, but for which formal publication by Foundation research in selected subject fields.
the Foundation has not been thought The series is aimed chiefly at policy-makers,
appropriate. Information about the contents of administrators and executives in Community
the archives may be obtained on application to institutions, and in governments, enterprises,
the Foundation, which will also supply copies of trade unions and business and professional
individual papers to bone-fide researchers. associations throughout the Member States. The
Information booklets are presented separately
from other publications in the first part of the
Classified list in this catalogue. About this catalogue
Subject to the remarks about language Language conventions
conventions which follow, this is a complete
catalogue in English of all the publications of the This catalogue has been compiled in a way
Foundation since its establishment. The which it is hoped will suit the convenience of that
catalogue also includes publications expected majority of users who may prefer to receive
to be published by the end of 1994. information in one single language, even where
it relates to publications in other languages.
Full bibliographical details are given only for the
English language (EN) version of each
publication, or failing that, for multilingual (ML)
versions, where such versions exist. Where an
Arrangement English language or multilingual version does
not exist, one other languagen is
described, the choice being made from the In general, see the Contents (p. 3). The
publications are principally presented in the languages of availability in the order of Danish
Classified list, under 21 numbered headings. (DA), German (DE), Spanish (ES), French (FR),
Greek (GR), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), and The title entriesr each main heading are
themselves in a numerical sub-sequence, Portuguese (PT). But even in such cases, titles
normally ordered according to date of and the entries relating to them are translated
publication. The entry numbers are used in the into the language of the catalogue in the
index and other references. Each entry consists Classified list and Title index. Correct original
of a descriptive text and essential bibliographical titles in the language of the version catalogued
data, including, for priced publications, the basic are provided in the Order form.
price in Ecus, free of any taxes and delivery
charges. Entries are of two types - single title
entries, and group entries. Single title entries
cover individual works, which may however be
available in more than one language version.
Group entries cover constella