Publications
April 2011
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Toolkit for Trade Unions on HIV and AIDS (Booklet 4)
19 April 2011
Booklet 4- Trade Union Education and Training on HIV and AIDS
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Toolkit for Trade Unions on HIV and AIDS(Booklet 3)
19 April 2011
Booklet 3-Workplace Action on HIV and AIDS: Contributing to Universal Access
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Toolkit for Trade Unions on HIV and AIDS(Booklet 2)
19 April 2011
Booklet 2-Respect for Rights: The Key to Labour and Workplace Responses.
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Toolkit for Trade Unions on HIV and AIDS (Booklet 1)
19 April 2011
Booklet 1: Core information on HIV and AIDS, the impact and the global response.
March 2011
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Climate Change and Labour: The Need for a “Just Transition”
21 March 2011
Climate change is now widely acknowledged as one of the great – if not the greatest – challenges facing humanity in the coming decades. Through its impact on average temperature, precipitations and sea levels, it will endanger the livelihood of hundreds of millions and impose increasing costs on our societies if nothing is done.
December 2010
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Trade Unions and Decent Work Country Programmes: A Resource Package
15 December 2010
Tripartism and social dialogue are essential tools to achieve the Decent Work Agenda and should be mainstreamed throughout the Office, but particularly in the context of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP)1 process which is a tool to implement the Social Justice Declaration and the Global Jobs Pact.All ILO constituents should be involved in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Decent Work activities at the country level.As one of the four strategic objectives, tripartism and social dialogue is the policy framework for the entire DWCP process and a tool to operationalize the other strategic objectives. They constitute a core element of the 2010-2015 Strategic Policy Framework (SPF) and can assist the ILO structures at all levels to apply this approach.
November 2010
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Global Labour University: Strengthening South-South Cooperation through a Global Network for Decent Work and Social Justice
18 November 2010
August 2010
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Trade Union Pluralism and Proliferation in French-Speaking Africa
19 August 2010
Collective bargaining is the key weapon in trade union action and, in order to negotiate, workers need organizations which are free, strong, democratic and independent. However, as the ILO’s celebrations of the 60th anniversary of these two Conventions come to an end, it is regrettable to observe a proliferation of trade union organizations in a number of African countries, particularly French-speaking ones.
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The growth and decline of political unionism in India: The need for a paradigm shift
01 August 2010
This publication analyzes the weaknesses of political unionism in India through various dimensions. It proposes a new paradigm shift towards “service-based unionism”, suitable for the new working environment shaped by changing employment patterns and industrial relations dynamics and for meeting the interests of the workers, especially in the informal economy.
July 2010
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Report: Workshop on Climate Change, Its Impacts on Employment and Labour Markets, March 2010
01 July 2010
This workshop was organised by the Global Union Research Network (GURN) and coordinated by the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The aim was to discuss academic research on the employment aspects of climate change and identify research gaps.
June 2010
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Winning Fair Labour Standards for Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from the Campaign for a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in New York State
15 June 2010
This paper attempts to identify the core reasons for the success of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Campaign while explaining how the strategies adopted overcame particular challenges.
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Financial Crisis, Deflation, and Trade Unions Responses: What are the Lessons?
15 June 2010
In January 2010, intent on drawing similar lessons from a labour perspective, the Bureau of Workers’ Activities and the Global Union Research Network organized their own workshop on “Labour and the economic crises of yesterday and today: Lessons for a just and sustainable future”. This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research brings together the various contributions that were made at that event.
December 2009
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Global Capital Strategies and Trade Union Responses: Collective Bargaining and Transnational Trade Union cooperation
01 December 2009
International Journal of Labour Research,2009 Vol. 1, Issue 2:The new issue of the International Journal of Labour Research presents a collection of papers that analyse in detail the character of global capital strategies and their impact on workers, as well as trade union responses to these strategies, in particular responses related to the development of transnational forms of collective bargaining.
November 2009
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The Employment Effects of Climate Change and Climate Change Responses: A Role for International Labour Standards?
01 November 2009
October 2009
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IJLR - Trade union strategies towards global production systems
21 October 2009
IJLR, Vol. I/1, 2009 - This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research emphasizes on the emergence of global production systems and the consequences for trade unions. These include the increasingly international challenges trade unions are facing, as well as the necessity to develop new strategies for effective organization and collective bargaining in order to take advantage of the opportunities presented by globalization.
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Trade union strategies towards global production systems
09 October 2009
International Journal of Labour Research,2009 Vol. 1, Issue 1: The International Journal of Labour Research is published by the Bureau for Workers’ Activities. It provides an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The International Journal of Labour Research is multidisciplinary and will be of interest to trade union researchers, labour ministries and academics of all relevant disciplines - industrial relations, sociology, law, economics and political science. It is published twice a year in English, French and Spanish.
September 2009
August 2009
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ACTRAV Helpdesk on Financial and Economic Crisis
19 August 2009
The ACTRAV Helpdesk offers advice and information and makes available workable tools and materials to assist trade unions regarding how they manage their responses to the financial and economic crisis and uphold workers’ rights.
May 2009
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ACTRAV Policy Note on Green Jobs
04 May 2009
January 2009
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UN Reform and Workers’ Organizations
01 January 2009