Books and reports

November 2011

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   China: From an Active Employment Policy to Employment Promotion Law. Coping with economic restructuring and labour market adjustments

   20 November 2011

   "China has enjoyed spectacularly high GDP growth rates for over more than three decades, thanks to the massive economic, social and institutional reforms put in place during a period of intensifying globalization." Based on a study by the Institute for Labour Studies Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, People's Republic of China, this report provides a unique account of China's move towards increased participation in the market economy and how the Government coped with the massive labour adjustments that came with the restructuring process.

October 2011

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   Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). Seventh edition (includes CD-ROM)

   14 October 2011

   This valuable wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. The Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers the general user with instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labour markets.

June 2011

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   Towards Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa: Monitoring MDG Employment Indicators

   23 June 2011

   Drawing on broad regional labour market analyses and country case studies, this book demonstrates how the new MDG employment indicators can be used as a basis for improved labour market and poverty monitoring as well as improved employment policy development in sub-Saharan Africa.

June 2010

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   Offshoring and working conditions in remote work

   07 June 2010

   Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), combined with organizations seeking to reduce costs, have led to a dramatic growth in service sector offshoring and outsourcing, most notably to developing countries such as India. This is a co-publication with Palgrave MacMillan Publishing.

January 2010

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   Concealed chains: Labour exploitation and Chinese migrants in Europe

   28 January 2010

   This groundbreaking book exposes the hidden world of Chinese irregular migrants in three European countries: France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Chinese workers migrating to Europe pay huge sums of money to intermediaries, often leaving them trapped in debt before they even begin their journey.

May 2009

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   Tackling the global jobs crisis. Recovery through decent work policies

   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. It also reflects the G20 London Jobs Conference and the meeting of the G8+6 Labour and Employment Ministers in Rome (March 2009), which welcomed with interest the International Labour Conference discussion on a Global Jobs Pact.

March 2009

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   The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009

   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.: rights at work, the quality of employment, income protection, employment and poverty reduction, a fair globalization and today's overriding goal of decent work for all.

October 2008

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   Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific

   08 October 2008

   This unique study reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and the increasing pressures towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the divergent experiences of individual workers regarding their employment conditions...

March 2008

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   Pursuing decent work goals: Priorities for research

   04 March 2008

   The ILO's research agenda was debated in the International Institute for Labour Studies' Research Conference on "Decent Work, Social Policy and Development", which was held in late 2006. A series of plenary presentations in the conference explored facts, forces and variables affecting decent work and suggested a number of priorities for analysis and policy. Six papers based on those presentations make this volume. They draw on a diversity of disciplines, particularly economics, sociology and law, and include both global and regional - African, Asian and European - perspectives. The book includes reflection on the links between economic and social policies; discusses challenges for research and action arising from increasingly informal labour markets; and identifies knowledge gaps concerning the impact of macro-economic and trade policies on decent work.

June 2006

1. Meeting the employment challenge: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in the global economy

   13 June 2006