National and international youth work, workers’ rights and older workers’ challenges

Abstract

I always wished to collect into one document all my published material and possibly print them in book form, if I found a publisher or printer ready to undertake the job. If not, I intended to send the entire hard copies to the respective Malta University faculties eg. The Faculty of Youth and Community Studies (or as I believe it is called today The Faculty of Social Wellbeing, The Faculty of Public Policy and the Institute of Labour Studies at the University of Malta. The collection could be used for research and historical purposes by those reading Youth and Community Studies, Public Policy and Labour Studies. It would also prove to be a good reference for trade union leaders and workers’ delegates. In the middle of the year 2000, ETC commissioned me to conduct a detailed research on what the members of the EU were doing about the difficult challenge of trying to find employment for those who were over 40 years of age and who were unemployed. I also wish to donate a copy of the report I presented to the ETC in April 2001 called A Report on Jobseekers 40 Years and Over, to the Melitensia section of the University of Malta library and another copy to the Biblioteca in Valletta. There are eleven chapters in my published contributions on National and International Youth Work, Workers’ Rights and Older Workers’ Challenges. Eleven corresponding chapters follow in the Appendix with scanned documents and photos on: the Żejtun Catholic Action Youth Centre (ZCAYC); the Malta Catholic Action (MCA); Youth Organisations (YO); the Malta Youth Consultative Council (MYCC); the Malta Catholic Social Guild (MCSG), the Social Action Movement (SAM), the Paolo Freire Institute (PFI), the Employment and Training Corporation (ETC), the Education Department; the University experience and articles on Malta’s recent-past socio-political situation.