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Investing in the workforce: Social investors and international labour standards

Employment Working Paper No. 29

Type Working paper
Date issued 2009
Reference 978-92-2122288-0 (ISBN)
Authors Elizabeth Umlas
Unit responsible Multinational Enterprises
Subjects international labour standards, corporate responsibility, investment, workers rights, developed countries, developing countries
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Identifies important trends in the use of international labour standards (ILS) in equity markets and examines why investors globally are motivated to take up ILS and how they are doing so. Identifies also promising initiatives for dialogue between investors, companies, trade unions and other actors such as NGOs in hopes of contributing to ongoing efforts to improve protection of workers’ rights globally.
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