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ACTRAV - both at headquarters, in the regions and at the International Training Centre in Turin - publishes a wide variety of manuals, brochures and practical guides on a broad spectrum of issues of interest to workers.

Thanks to its close ties with trade union organizations across the world, its presence in the field in various regions and to its training activities, ACTRAV is at the centre of a vast network for information on the trade union movement. This information is placed at the service of the International Labour Office and its constituents and of the public at large through the media, universities and NGOs.

The principal vehicles for this information are in addition to its web pages:

  • Press Releases (ACTRAV Info)
  • Newsletters (Human Rights at Work)
  • Publications

Until recently ACTRAV published the quarterly review Labour Education in three languages English, French and Spanish, devoted to analysis and forward studies. It drew on the best specialists from the world of work and dealt with topics of burning issues.

Starting in 2009 a new ACTRAV publication replaced Labour Education. The International Journal of Labour Research was established to provide a vehicle for disseminating recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. This journal is multi-disciplinary and will be of interest to trade union researchers, labour ministries and academics of all relevant disciplines worldwide - industrial relations, sociology, law, economics and political science. Each focuses on a specific theme and the journal is published twice a year in English, French and Spanish.

Below you will find a list of all ACTRAV publications by year, including the new journal. You can browse by area of interest or region by using the search possibilities in the right column of this page.

Press releases and Newsletters are found by selecting those headings in the left column of this page.

2012

  1. The State of Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations practice in Nigeria’s Export Processing Zones

    11 June 2012

    The expansion of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) across the world has been an attendant phenomenon to the globalising processes of neoliberalism in the past few decades. The EPZs are supposed to be vehicles for the attraction of much needed foreign direct investments for development by the world’s underdeveloped and less developed countries. Unfortunately, they have also become havens for some of the worst work practices and denial of workers’ rights to associate in defence of their rights and for the advancement of their interests, thus constituting one of the most inhumane “race to the bottom” characteristic of the neoliberal pathway to socio economic development of countries.

  2. Achieving Decent Work for Domestic Workers

    22 May 2012

    An organizer’s manual to promote ILO convention no. 189 and build domestic workers’ power.

  3. ACTRAV INFO: May 2012

    10 May 2012

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 15 May 2012.

  4. ACTRAV INFO: April 2012

    18 April 2012

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 14 April 2012.

  5. ACTRAV INFO: March 2012

    15 March 2012

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 13 March 2012.

  6. ACTRAV INFO: February 2012

    20 February 2012

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 12 February 2012.

  7. ACTRAV INFO: January 2012

    25 January 2012

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 11 January 2012.

2011

  1. ACTRAV INFO: December 2011

    15 December 2011

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 10 December 2011.

  2. Working for a Social Protection Floor by Ellen Ehmke & Andreas Bodemer

    28 November 2011

    Worldwide, 75% of the population have no or insufficient access to social security provision. Despite the long record of social security as a human right, which is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 22, 25) and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (Art. 9), its implementation has been widely disregarded.

  3. IJLR - Towards a Sustainable Economic Recovery: The case for wage-led policies

    22 November 2011

    This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research addresses a central issue, if not the key issue for the labour movement, that of wages and what has happened to them over the past three decades.

  4. IJLR - Towards a Sustainable Economic Recovery: The case for a wage-led policies

    22 November 2011

    International Journal of Labour Research - IJLR, Vol.III/2, 2011. While much attention has been deservedly given to the financial roots of the current economic crisis, the role of wages as a cause as well as a solution has yet to be fully understood. To help fill this gap, this issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is largely dedicated to this topic.

  5. ACTRAV INFO: November 2011

    15 November 2011

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 9 November 2011.

  6. Decent Work 2.0: By Frank Hoffer

    14 November 2011

    Last month, Juan Somavia, the long serving Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) announced his departure in 2012. As head of the ILO, he introduced the Decent Work Agenda in 1999 to re-focus the ILO and make it relevant for the 21st century. Twelve years later, the concept of ‘Decent Work’ is firmly established in the global debate and as an objective of national policy.

  7. ACTRAV INFO: October 2011

    15 October 2011

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 8 October 2011.

  8. Employers and Workers Handbook on Hazardous Child Labour

    05 October 2011

    The ILO estimates that across the globe there are a total of 115 million children under the age of 18 currently involved in hazardous work. That is more than half (53%) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide engaged in hazardous child labour.

  9. Trade Unions and the Global Crisis: Labour’s Visions, Strategies and Responses

    30 September 2011

    If the recent global economic crisis has debilitated labour in many parts of the world, many segments of the trade union movement have been fighting back, combining traditional and innovative strategies and articulating alternatives to the dominant political and economic models. This book offers a composite overview of the responses of trade unions and other workers’ organizations to neoliberal globalization in general and to the recent financial crisis in particular.

  10. Trade Unions and the Global Crisis: Labour’s Visions, Strategies and Responses

    20 September 2011

    If the recent global economic crisis has debilitated labour in many parts of the world, many segments of the trade union movement have been fighting back, combining traditional and innovative strategies and articulating alternatives to the dominant political and economic models. Trade unions and the global crisis offers a composite overview of the responses of trade unions and other workers’ organizations to neoliberal globalization in general and to the recent financial crisis in particular.

  11. ACTRAV INFO: September 2011

    01 September 2011

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 7 September 2011.

  12. ACTRAV INFO: August 2011

    01 August 2011

    ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 6 August 2011.

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