Books and reports

June 2013

1. 

   Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New developments and beyond

   18 June 2013

   This volume presents the concept and history of work sharing, how it can be used as a strategy for preserving jobs and also its potential for increasing employment − including the complexities and trade-offs involved. Work-sharing programmes used during the Great Recession of 2008−09 are analysed for several European countries and other countries around the world.

February 2009

1. Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008

   03 February 2009

   This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.

May 2006

1. 

   Decent Working Time. New trends, new issues

   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.

June 2005

1. Reconciling work and family responsibilities. Practical ideas from global experience

   14 June 2005

   Looks at and synthesizes the experience of governments, employers and trade unions in various countries.

March 2005

1. Hours of work. From fixed to flexible? Report of the Committee of Experts on the application of Conventions and Recommendations (articles 19, 22 and 35 of the Constitution). Report 93 III (Part 1B)

   07 March 2005

   Reviews law and practice of ILO Member States relating to hours of work, with particular reference to the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No.1) and the Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30).

March 2004

1. 

   Working time and workers’ preferences in industrialized Countries. Finding the balance

   09 March 2004

   This volume examines the changing nature in working time in industrialized countries. Globalization, demographics changes, increasing numbers of women in the labour market; all these changes have resulted in working time arrangements which now look vastly different from what they did several decades ago.

March 1994

1. Times are changing. Working time in 14 industrialised countries

   16 March 1994

   This book provides information on the duration, structure, flexibility and reduction of working time in fourteen industrialized nations. Countries are treated separately. Covers the period up to 1980.

March 1991

1. The hours we work: New work schedules in policy and practice (Conditions of work digest 2/90)

   11 March 1991

   Provides an overview of provisions of laws and collective agreements, and policy statements on a wide variety of topics, including flexibility in daily and weekly hours and part-time work. Contains detailed descriptions of over 30 case studies in diverse industries and services and a comprehensive analysis of manuals and guidelines on working time arrangements.