>James G. Gibb schrieb:
>> Fellow HistArchers:
>> Please consider contributing a SHA 2001 paper to the proposed ethics in
>> archaeological employment session described below.
>> Jim Gibb
>>
>> Organized Session: Ethics in Contractual Archaeological Employment:
>> Flexibility or Denied Responsibility
>> Session Abstract
>> Every year talented, well-educated, well-trained, hard working
>> practitioners leave archaeology, while others endure frustration,
>> inadequate healthcare, and financial hardship. Employers often deny
>> contractual and self-employed persons adequate compensation, workers'
>> compensation, benefits, and rights comparable to those given merit
>> employees with similar credentials, experiences, skills, and duties, and
>> despite their treatment in all other respects as employees. Benefits
>> include insurance and pension plans, paid holidays and sick time, and
>> social security contributions worth thousands of dollars a year to
>> individual workers.
>>
>> The use of contractual workers and self-employed contractors figures
>> prominently in archaeology's failure to retain and fairly treat many
>> colleagues, while potentially holding government agencies, universities,
>> museums, and corporations liable for millions of dollars in penalties
>> and back taxes. Contributors to this session will discuss contractual
>> employment, the roles of contracted workers in archaeology,
>> price-cutting through the use of contractual labor, and guidelines for
>> professional conduct in hiring and compensating archaeologists,
>> historians, conservationists, other allied professionals, and support
>> personnel.
>>
>> James G. Gibb
>> Andrew Garte & Associates
>> 6285 Shady Side Road
>> Shady Side, MD 20764
>> 410.867.4600/410.263.1102
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Dr. Yannis Hamilakis
Lecturer in Archaeology
Director, Centre for the Study of South Eastern Europe
(http://www.swan.ac.uk/cssee/cssee.htm)
Department of Archaeology Tel.: 01570-422351(x396)
University of Wales Lampeter Fax: 01570-423669
Lampeter,Ceredigion, SA48 7ED E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WALES,UK.
http://archaeology.lamp.ac.uk/hamilakis/yhamilakis.html
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