信息产业修志工作的特点

信息产业作为一个新兴产业,在首轮修志的后期纳入了部分地区志书的《交通卷》。第二轮修志在广东省则单独立卷,体现信息产业的重要地位。但是同时,面对信息产业体系庞大,概念抽象、技术复杂和快速多变等特点,确实为修信息产业志提出了一系列传统产业所没有的新课题。这些课题促使我们对信息产业的发展过程、分类方法和行业特点等若干重大问题进行认真思考,为顺利开展信息产业志的编修工作打下基础。     

Alcohol Studies and Anthropology: Broadening the Venture

Caplan, Pat, ed. The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tav‐istock, 1987. xi + 304 pp. including name and subject indexes. $44.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.

Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. xi + 344 pp. including 16 black‐and‐white plates, bibliography, and index. $21.95 cloth.     

研究回鹘文契约文书的创新之作--读《回鹘文契约文书初探》

2000年12月,台北五南图书出版公司出版发行了刘戈《回鹘契约书初探》(下简称《初探》)一书。全书由四章和前言、2个附录、后记构成,近20万字,从回鹘契约书的研究概况及研究中存在的问题、回鹘买卖书的格式与套语、由格式套语看回鹘买卖书的年代问题、由回鹘契约书看13-14世纪高昌地区的民族或部落等方面,对回鹘契约书进行了有益的探讨。该书所具有的学术价值主要体现在以下几个方面：     

过渡时期劳动关系的国家调节

过渡时期是新型企业劳动关系的形成时期。针对不同性质的企业,国家建立新型劳动关系的政策措施各具特色。根据改造社会的需要,政府从劳动争议处理制度入手,把私营企业的劳动关系逐步改造为具有社会主义性质的劳动关系,同时以劳动管理制度的改革为中心实现了国营企业劳动关系的转换。总体上看,这一时期国家调节劳资关系的政策措施是正确的,建立新型劳动管理制度的努力也有合理的成分,主要的失误在于对国营企业发生劳动纠纷的认识有偏差,在加强制度建设上有明显的疏漏。     

Privatization and Foreign Investment in the Utilities Industries of Kazakhstan

An American economist specializing in the natural resource and related industries of Kazakhstan examines the experience in the privatization of that country's power generation, telecommunications, and postal services sectors. A focus is on the involvement of foreign companies in the process, the terms of the management contracts/joint-venture agreements, and the extremely short time frame within which privatization was implemented. Difficulties resulting from the rapid pace of privatization are described: unclear terms of sale, reversals of tender awards and cancellation of agreements, nonpayment by consumers, and uncertainties in the setting of rates. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: F21, G34, L90. 1 figure, 1 table, 30 references.     

Transitional Hero: Gough Whitlam and the Australian Labor Party

This article is a contribution to the debate on the nature of the modern Labor Party and a commentary on the extensive literature which the debate has produced (see Warhurst 1994). An important element in this literature is the argument that the modern Labor Party, led by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, is no longer the party it once was, but is fundamentally different in its policies, and that indeed in its very nature it is alien to Labor traditions (Maddox 1989; Jaensch 1989; Beilharz 1994). This line of argument has been called, by Rick Kuhn, the discontinuity thesis, and is now known as such (Kuhn 1992). Along with others, I am not convinced by this thesis but would rather emphasise the continuities in Labor experience. Like Hugh Emy I believe that 'The contrast between the two [Whitlam and Hawke] has been overdrawn'. (Emy 1993, p. 20)     

Rural Growth Points and Rural Industries in Zimbabwe: Ideologies and Policies

A Rural Service Centre which provided all basic infrastructure, had a strong residential component and offered a wide range of services would automatically attract rural non-farm activities. This is the term applied to the whole range of activities connected with trading, manufacturing, construction, transport and government and other services. improved infrastructure is the key to more rural manufacturing. The deficiency in manufacturing may therefore be expected to right itself if given the necessary Government support through the provision of infrastructure. (Whitsun Foundation, 1980: 60–1; emphases added). Rural Service Centres ‘do not offer any major form of non-agricultural employment other than trade and certain jobs connected with the provision of services for agricultural communities’. (Hanratty and Heath, 1984:27)