This paper presents preliminary findings of a study that forms part of a larger cross-cultural investigation on work-family conflict across nine countries. The paper examines the effect of work and family antecedents such as control, involvement, overload, hours spent and support, on work-family conflict. It also explores the antecedent effect of contextual / socio-psychological and cultural variables such as vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism, gender role ideology and monochronic or polychronic time orientation on work-family conflict.

This paper examines the relationship between social support and work-family conflict for working women and men in the Indian context. Based on qualitative data gathered from focus group discussions in India, the nature of social support from the family is described. Next, statistical analysis of survey results is conducted to examine whether the relationship between social support and work-family conflict gives support to the data as well as traditional theory-driven hypotheses between the two variables.

Based on a review of literature pertaining to governmental policies affecting the work-family context, and data gathered from focus group discussions, this paper highlights how the Indian context is marked by high non-institutional and low-institutional support for working women.

For the last couple of years I have conducted research in Cuba on a range of contemporary performance forms. This work has emerged from a related project that unpacks the meanings that Cuba and Haiti have acquired in the US national imaginary: from their strategic position as the first sites of US imperialism in the Caribbean, and their crucial role in the imaginative restructuring of race and national identity in the US at the turn of the twentieth century, to their marked vilification and erasure today through contemporary US political strategy and foreign policy.

(Work in process; accepted in a forthcoming collection on the work of Kathy Acker.) In 1939, just four years after the US withdrew from its nineteen-year-long military occupation of Haiti, Cole

(Unpublished manuscript written by John A. Ruhe and F. Byron Nahser.) This paper examines the link of global corruption to the cheating in academe. The problem, causes, and some solutions used in other academic environments are presented as well as sought from the audience. We propose that corruption is caused by both external and internal factors. We also will examine the role of some faculty in failing to stop cheating and the failure to practice integrity themselves that also contribute to the corruption problem.

(Unpublished manuscript by James Davis, Monle Lee and John A. Ruhe.) The lack of effective character education at the university level is considered a contributor to the many corporate scandals in the United States and abroad. This paper discusses gender differences in character development among different types of institutions and suggests how case writers can contribute to developing cases of heroes/heroines with values.

Recent democratization episodes in Africa have steered researchers’ attention toward the gender dimension of the transition process. This is the case here. The author focuses on the gender dimension of transition politics from an historical perspective to address issues on how African women have shaped and been shaped by transition politics.

We use the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares, years 1996, 2000, and 2004, which is a large household survey in Mexico, to assess the impact of the flows of remittances (mainly from the U.S.) to Mexico since the mid 1990s. The essay provides a household expenditure breakdown of these flows. There are several striking facts that surface from the observation of income, saving, age dependency and economic dependency between those households that receive remittances and those that do not.

I discuss the interplay between human behavior and nature's capital, in its capacity as source and sink (to absorb and assimilate by-product waste), that is, the interaction between the behavior of households and the source and sink functions played by natural capital. I look at the metaphors used in economics from the perspective of two main approaches, namely: environmental economics and ecological economics.