https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16795 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:30:13 GMT 2026-04-09T06:30:13Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16995 Title: A review of Maltese trade unionism : analysis based on the annual reports of the registrar of trade unions Authors: Baldacchino, Godfrey Abstract: Trade unions in Malta have been in existence for over a century in some form or other. However, for many decades after the first attempt to establish a fitters' union at the Dockyard in 1884, trade unions made little headway. The general social climate of the day was still strongly anti-combinationist, viewing trade unions and other forms of worker organization as outrightly hostile and subversive activities, sabotaging the freedom of the free market mechanism. The non-existence of any institutional machinery for employerworker negotiation made local unionism ineffective anyway. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16995 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16994 Title: Taking account of small scale and insularity in administrative reform strategies : the case of Malta 1988-1990 Authors: Warrington, Edward Abstract: This paper reviews features which are associated with small scale and with [relative] geographical isolation in Malta's administrative reform initiated in May 1988. It identifies the issues associated with these twin phenomena, and outlines the strategies proposed for dealing with them. It concludes by posing questions regarding, firstly, the appropriateness of the strategies proposed and, secondly, the extent to which the lessons of Malta's experience are applicable to other small and island states. The author writes from the perspective of his former position as Secretary of the Public Service Reform Commission, which played a principal role in formulating the strategies for administrative reform. The reader who is unfamiliar with Malta's system of government and administration may find Appendix I useful. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16994 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16991 Title: Sociological perspectives on class in Malta Authors: Sultana, Ronald G. Abstract: There exist a variety of approaches to defining "class" but, as Joppke (1986, p. 55) points out, none of these approaches can avoid addressing, in a sympathetic or critical manner, "the two main sociological traditions which - more or less in mutual rivalry - have shaped the discussion on class up to the present" These are the Marxist and Weberian analyses of class, and it is this classical sociological tradition that needs to be briefly addressed first before we consider the structure of power relations in Malta. Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16991 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16988 Title: Cancer in Malta : trends in mortality and incidence rates of lung and breast cancer Authors: Mintoff, Yana Abstract: Health and development are interlinked. This paper is a first step in the epidemiology of lung and breast cancer in Malta over the last thirty years. It provides raw material and suggestive correlations. Cancer has become a major cause of illness and death in every age group, but in particular the over sixties. A significant increase in lung cancer mortality and in particular breast cancer morbidity and mortality is apparent. Locational studies show a higher incidence in particular of lung cancer in the Inner Harbour Region where the docks, shipbuilding, many textile and other industries, and the coal-fired power station, are located and where the working class is concentrated. The lack of government controls on known carcinogens such as asbetos, together with clear results of occupational cancer studies done in say USA or Britain, indicate that there is an urgent need to control and eliminate local carcinogenic hazards. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16988 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z