Re: Mondragon: Fwd: New ILO Recommendation on the Promotion of Cooperatives

[RaceM <race@netspace.net.au>]

Dear Robert

Thanks for your message, and for your appreciative comments about 
'Jobs of Our Own'. As to 'Rerum Novarum', I had always until I wrote 
the book called the encyclical just that, but in the course of the 
research I came across 'De Rerum Novarum' in what I took to be an 
authoritative source, and adopted it as translating to 'Of New 
Things'. Which shows among other things that a distant recollection 
of schooldays Latin is a dangerous thing. I haven't commented on your 
'Jobs and Fairness' because I haven't yet had the opportunity to read 
it properly - the Parliamentary Library here came up with a copy on 
inter-library loan, but it had to be returned before I had had time 
to do any more than a first skim through, so I've now ordered it from 
my local bookseller who tells me that I have a few more weeks still 
to wait. One section that interested me greatly was the end game in 
regard to the National Freight Corporation - I'd read Peter 
Thompson's account in his memoirs some years ago and frequently 
referred to it in speeches, but never got round to finding out what 
had been the final washup. Meanwhile, I still don't know whether I 
will be able to make Bilbao, less for financial reasons than that I 
have recently taken on a fairly substantial short term consultancy on 
early childhood education and care for a government deparyment, that 
has to be completed by Christmas, so getting to the conference will 
depend on how the work is progressing. Best wishes, Race Mathews
-- 


Dr Race Mathews,
Senior Research Fellow,
Government and Governance Unit,
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University.

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