Books: countries and areas

A 

• Action against child labour. IPEC highlights 2008 - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This report is the mid-term implementation report of the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour for the biennium 2008-09.
• A guide to worker displacement: Some tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises (update 2009) - Buy now
  19 June 2009 - The guide is primarily for use in industrialized and transition countries, and is aimed at policy makers, employers and workers in developing appropriate responses that promote worker retention and employment during the recession.

C 

• Cooperating out of child labour. Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This title has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child labour worldwide.

D 

• Delivering decent work in Europe and Central Asia. Report of the Director-General, Volume I, Part 1. Eighth ILO European Regional Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-13 February 2009 - Buy now
  26 January 2009 - The Eighth European Regional Meeting can be instrumental in elaborating a strong message charting a balanced approach to sustainable growth and development based on decent work for all. Also available in French, Spanish, German and Russian.
• Decent Working Time. New trends, new issues - Buy now
  31 May 2006 - Based on the results of the Ninth International Symposium on Working Time (Paris, 26-28 February 2004). Provides an exploration of current developments in working time in the industrialized world; how those developments vary in different countries and under different sets of socio-economic circumstances; and the public and enterprise policies that are best suited to addressing these developments.

F 

• Forced labour and human trafficking. Casebook of court decisions - Buy now
  22 June 2009 - The present casebook fills an important gap. It covers a range of national experience, from judicial decisions on forced and bonded labour in a number of developing countries, through to the more recent decisions on forced labour and trafficking in industrialized countries. ...
• Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. Second edition - Buy now
  01 September 2008 - Fully revised and updated, this second edition introduces new ILO instruments promoting occupational safety and health (OSH) and new chemical safety information tools, and addresses OSH in the context of globalization and HIV/AIDS and the world of work. ...

G 

• Global Wage Report 2008/09 Towards policy coherence: Minimum wages and collective bargaining - Buy now
  20 November 2008 - The first in a new series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews major trends in the level and distribution of wages around the world since 1995. ...

I 

• International Journal of Labour Research Trade union strategies towards global production systems (Vol. I/1) - Buy now
  21 October 2009 - International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in Fall 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. ...
• ILO activities in Africa, 2000-2003. Report of the Director-General. Tenth African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, December 2003. - [pdf 783 KB] - Buy now
  01 January 2003 - Describes (1) some of the development frameworks adopted by the international community and the African region in response to the social and economic challenges facing the continent, and (2) how the ILO has responded to the emerging development challenges and priorities in Africa through the implementation of relevant activities within the framework of Decent Work Agenda.

K 

• Key indicators of the labour market (Fifth edition) with interactive CD-ROM (Trilingual English/French/Spanish) - Buy now
  04 February 2008 - KILM provides a valuable, wide-ranging reference tool to meet the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. It includes all the basic statistics used to calculate 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. ...

L 

• Labour and social trends in ASEAN 2008. Driving competitiveness and prosperity with decent work - Buy now
  15 February 2009 - This report looks at some of the most important current labour and social trends in the 10 ASEAN Member Countries. ...

P 

• Private employment agencies, temporary agency workers and their contribution to the labour market. WPEAC/2009 - Buy now
  02 October 2009 - Private employment agencies play an important role in the functioning of contemporary labour markets. They act as intermediaries in modern labour markets, allowing enterprises greater flexibility to increase or decrease their workforces, while ensuring for the workers sufficient security in terms of job opportunities and employment standards, including pay, working time and training.

S 

• Sampling for household-based surveys of child labour - Buy now
  13 February 2009 - This manual is concerned with sampling issues arising in the context of household-based child labour surveys.
• 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.

T 

• Tackling the global jobs crisis. Recovery through decent work policies - Buy now
  15 May 2009 - This report proposes the initial elements of a Global Jobs Pact based on the policy orientations provided by the Governing Body in November 2008 and March 2009 and by recent regional and sectoral tripartite ILO meetings on responses to the crisis. ...

V 

• Value chain development for decent work - Buy now
  21 August 2009 - The current global economic crisis has rendered governments, employers and workers concerned about the effects on people, enterprises and employment. Prepared in the context of the Paris Declaration for AID Effectiveness, this guide systematically addresses all relevant aspects that value chain facilitators need to take into account.
• Vocational education and skills development for commerce workers. - Buy now
  04 February 2009 - Report on the proceedings. Global dialogue forum on vocational education and skills development for commerce workers. Report GDFCW/2008/8

W 

• World of Work Report 2008 - Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization - Buy now
  17 November 2008 - Income inequalities have been growing significantly within countries over the past two decades or so. This new report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a timely assessment of this issue, based on new data and economic analysis and with full technical annexes. It looks at the extent of this phenomenon and ...
• Working for better times. Rethinking work for the 21st century - Buy now
  08 May 2007 - This volume offers unique insights into current thinking and policy options on these crucial issues. It consists of a selection of articles from the ILO's flagship journal, the International Labour Review, including contributions by such distinguished scholars as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Sir Bob Hepple, and Alain Supiot. Includes an introduction by Jean Michel Servais.