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Well-coordinated, professional, and efficient labor administration machinery is essential to the effective governance of the labor market. This unique volume clearly sets out the role, functions, and organization of labor administration. It highlights the relationship between social policy and economic policy and identifies the vast array of services that most people have access to during their working lives. It gives a comprehensive overview ...

The International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in the fall of 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics of all relevant disciplines-industrial relations, socio...

Labour standards have long been upheld by the ILO as an essential pillar of development and peace at the national and international levels. Respect for fundamental rights at work is at the core of the ILO's decent work strategy. This important new book offers valuable insight on the content and application of the ILO's fundamental international labour standards and related standards. These fundamental standards-on freedom of association, colle...

Skills for Green Jobs examines the experiences of twenty-one developed and developing countries (representing sixty per cent of the world's population) that adjusted their training to meet new demands of a greener economy. It shows that while few new occupations are emerging, massive changes are occurring in existing ones, with carbon-intensive industries typically losing jobs. Successful transitions to new, greener industries and occupations ...

In June 2011, the International Labor Office adopted Convention No. 189, calling for an assessment and strengthening of national labor laws that include equal protection for domestic workers. This guide is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labor laws, including government officials and representatives of workers' and employers' organizations. With Convention No. 189 as its underlying fra...

The power of the social protection floor lies in its simplicity. The floor is based on the idea that everyone should have access to basic goods and services such as essential health care, primary education, housing, water, and sanitation. This report shows that the extension of social protection floors can play a pivotal role in relieving people of poverty and deprivation. It can also help people adapt their skills in order to contribute to th...

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) is a wide-ranging reference tool that offers the general user instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labor markets. Harvesting information from international data repositories as well as regional and national statistical sources, the KILM offers data for over two hundred countries from 1980 to the latest available year for each country. The eighteen key labor market indic...

Studies have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of ergonomic innovations for improving working and living conditions in rural and agricultural settings. This manual presents practical and concrete guidance on easy-to-implement ergonomic improvements, particularly in developing countries. The result of long-term collaboration between the ILO and the International Ergonomics Association, the book compiles one hundred illustrated examples of...

Workers around the world are still paying the price for policy failures that led to the 2008 financial crisis. The underlying structural problems that caused the crisis are still with us: a fragile and still largely underregulated financial system, depressed wages and widening income inequalities, and trade imbalances between debtor and surplus countries. This issue of the IJLR, mostly drawn from presentations at the 2010 Global Labour Univers...

The role of wages in the current financial crisis-as a cause as well as a solution-has yet to be fully understood. In this issue, contributors look at the policy roots of growing wage inequality, secular decline in the wage share of national income in recent decades, and how these developments are intertwined with the financial crisis. The essays critique mainstream economic analysis of labor markets and present alternative frameworks to bette...

This manual provides easy-to-apply guidelines for identifying stressors in working life and mitigating their harmful effects. The checkpoints are good practice for enterprises and organizations in general, and they are especially useful for companies and organizations that wish to incorporate stress prevention into their overall occupational safety and health policy and management systems. Each of the points-illustrated in full color-describes...

The consequences of globalizations, particularly for employment, wages, and incomes, arouse widespread concern. This book investigates the basis for these anxieties by analysing the effects of the growing two-way trade in manufactures between North and South - the core of globalization. Its conclusions set fresh parameters for the globalization debate. Presenting results of new research, the author shows that, contrary to popular perceptions, ...

This book reviews the history of labor relations in Nepal and considers criticisms of the existing industrial relations system. It reports on the reemergence of the militant Maoist trade union and the recent upsurge in strikes and demonstrations in the mountainous nation. A reduction in workplace tension is required to cement in place the recent peace agreement, facilitate political stability, and promote economic growth. Focusing on broad eco...

This groundbreaking report is the most comprehensive account of contemporary forced labor to date. It provides the first global and regional estimates by an international organization of forced labor in the world today. The report includes the number of people affected and how many of them are victims of trafficking, as well as profits made by criminals who exploit the trafficked workers. The book sheds new light on three major categories of f...

This book provides an invaluable overview of the principal international legal instruments, policies, and initiatives for the rights of people with disabilities. It focuses on the different options available to people with disabilities who wish to work in open and competitive employment, sheltered employment, supported employment, and social enterprises. It examines the trends in each of these categories, highlighting the key issues in each ca...

This wide-ranging reference tool meets the demand for timely, accurate, and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. Now in its fifth edition, the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers instant and uncomplicated access to data on the world's labor markets. Harvesting vast information from international repositories and regional and national statistical sources, the book provides data for over 200 countries, goin...

The goal of microfinance institutions (MFIs) is to help the poor cope better with risk, take advantage of small income-generating opportunities, and empower themselves through organization. To have this impact, MFIs need to be financially sound and sustainable. However, while there may be situations where MFIs can meet both of these objectives, there are other markets where it is very difficult or even impossible for an institution to break ev...

This book explores how to make globalization work better in the interest of the workers of the world. It discusses active labor market policies (ALMPs) that have to be put in place to combat some of the negative effects of globalization and introduce more security and decent work for workers. Comprising an array of measures, ALMPs can take the form of special support for job searching, training and education for the unemployed, and various oth...

This is a practical guidebook for developing effective occupational health and safety (OHS) policies and programs. It focuses on the key topics essential to promoting and managing national and enterprise OHS systems. It presents a concise overview of the issues involved, together with specific guidelines for policy design, implementation, and management at both national and enterprise levels. The operational aspects of meeting health and safet...

While most countries have some statistics on occupational injuries, in many, coverage is often limited, with certain industries, groups of workers, or types of injury not included. Even where coverage is broad, many occupational injuries go unrecorded due to inadequacies in reporting and notification systems. This manual seeks to remedy this situation by providing those responsible for compiling data on occupational injuries with newly develop...