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acknowledgments
this book is the result of the work made for about four years by the
employment conditions Network (eMcoNet) as part of the WHo
commission on social Determinants of Health (cDsH). We want to thank the
large number of participants who, with their contribution, have made possible
this collective and challenging effort. We are thankful to samuel Noh, Hani
serag, sarah simpson, and especially to Jeanette vega, for their valuable help
and support. We also thank for their contributions to Daniel ernesto Albrecht
Alba, Jaime breilh, Duncan campbell, Donald cole, sharon cooper, carlos
Dora, tim evans, tanja Houweling, ivan ivanov, sherman James, Francie
lund, seiji Machida, Michael Marmot, Ndioro Ndiaye, Papa Ndiaye, Peter
orris, Mustafa Hakki ozel, María Neira, césar Parra, ritu sadana, Anand
sivasankara Kurup, valentina stoevska, sebastian taylor, Nicole valentine,
eugenio villar, sylvester Young and Alec irwin. We also thank Yogan Pillay,
Jörma rantanen and Marty chen, for their many valuable comments and
suggestions reviewing the 2007 eMcoNet report for the cDsH. We thank
Jorge riechmann for his help as a translator of John berger’s text. We also
are thankful to all partners from the occupational Health research centre
(cisAl) for their support and particular to Montserrat Fernández, Marta
Arbizu and Montserrat vilà for their administrative assistance and cristina
Hernández, clara Drudis and the secretaria de Formació i cultura de
comissions obreres de catalunya for their help in the search of photographs.
We also thank to the photographers Antonio rosa, Gabriel brau, Pedro Mayor
and Marc schenker and to the international labour organisation for their
contribution with their photographs. We are especially grateful to all the
persons and workers who with their information, opinions, and experiences,
have contributed to make this book possible.
this book was made possible through the ingent work undertaken by
the Health inequalities research Group-employment conditions
Network (GreDs-eMcoNet) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).
the work of the chair (Joan benach) was partially funded by a grant
(salvador de Madariaga, Pr2006-0203) from the Ministry of education
and science of spain. Alejandra vives has been funded by the
Programme Alban, european Union´s High level scolarship
Programme for latin America, scholarship nº e06D103150clAlbAN
Program. Montse vergara Duarte, vanessa Puig barrachina and José
Miguel Martínez Martínez have been partially funded by ciber
epidemiología y salud Pública (ciberesP), spain.
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