Books: workers rights

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• Affirmative action in employment ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities - Buy now
  14 July 1997 -

C 

• Compendium of Maritime Labour Instruments - Buy now
  09 September 2008 - Maritime Labour Convention, 2006; Seafarers' Identity Documents (Revised) Convention, 2003; Work in Fishing Convention and Recommendation, 2007. This essential new reference source presents the full text of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, along with a collection of related standards, including the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. ...

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• Freedom of association. Digest of decisions and principles of the Freedom of Association Committee of the Governing Body of the ILO. Fifth (revised) edition. - Buy now
  21 October 2006 -
• Fundamental rights at work and international labour standards - Buy now
  29 April 2003 - Offers a detailed description of the relevant Conventions and their principles, along with specific problems encountered in their application at national level.
• Freedom of association: A user’s guide - Buy now
  04 November 1999 - Serves as a companion volume to "ILO law on freedom of association: standards and procedures" (Geneva, 1995). Describes the practical influence and impact of the ILO's freedom of association standards and principles and the use of procedures for their enforcement.
• Freedom of association: An annotated bibliography - Buy now
  28 October 1999 -

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• Getting hired. A guide for job-seekers with disabilities - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - This manual, used as a companion to training manual Getting hired: A trainer's manual for conducting a workshop for job-seekers with disabilities, can be helpful to organizations of people with disabilities, placement agencies, non-governmental organizations and community organizations.
• Getting hired. A trainer's manual for conducting a workshop for job-seekers with disabilities - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - The purpose of the job-seekers' workshop is to assist people with disabilities in finding and keeping employment in the formal sector and addresses the unique barriers that disabled people often face when seeking jobs..

I 

• ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work and its follow-up - Buy now
  02 September 1998 -

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• Organizing for social justice. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work. Report of the Director-General, 2004 - [pdf 459 KB] - Buy now
  20 May 2004 - Freedom of association, and the recognition of the right to bargain collectively, are not only fundamental human rights at work, but also vital elements of economic, social and political processes. ...

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• Protection of workers’ personal data. ILO code of practice - Buy now
  05 June 1997 -

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• Safe maternity and the world of work - Buy now
  11 February 2008 - This publication sets out three priority areas within the ILO mandate that stand to contribute substantially to efforts aimed at improving maternal health.

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• The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009 - Buy now
  16 March 2009 - The International Labour Organization was founded in 1919 in the belief that peace and social justice go hand in hand. This book explores key ideas that the ILO has championed and applied through the political and economic upheavals of the last 90 years. ...
• The employment relationship. Report 95 V (2A) - Buy now
  08 March 2006 - Compiles the replies of governments and of employers' and workers' organizations to a questionnaire on the employment relationship. Includes the ILO's evaluation in view of a proposed Recommendation.
• The Committee on Freedom of Association. Its impact over 50 years - Buy now
  28 October 2002 - Based on a selection of examples from the past 25 years, examines the manner in which the Committee on Freedom of Association of the Governing Body of the ILO carries out its supervisory role.

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• Workers’ privacy. Part I: Protection (Conditions of wotk digest 2/91) - Buy now
  15 May 1992 - Provides an overview of legislative provisions of 19 countries and of international instruments on data protection. Looks at enterprise- level practices, provisions of collective agreements, as well as policy statements, directives and guidelines issued by government institutions, trade unions and individual employers regarding workers' privacy.