Books and reports

April 2009

1. 

   Edward Phelan and the ILO: Life and views of an international social actor

   27 April 2009

   This book is a remarkable portrait of Edward J. Phelan (1888-1967), a man who dedicated his life to social justice and whose views and actions guided the work of the ILO for decades.

March 2008

1. Final report. Meeting of Experts to examine instruments, knowledge, advocacy, technical cooperation and international collaboration as tools with a view to developing a policy framework for hazardous substances. Report MEPFHS/2007/11

   10 March 2008

November 2007

1. Background information for developing an ILO policy framework for hazardous substances

   22 November 2007

   Document for discussion at the Meeting of Experts to Examine Instruments, Knowledge, Advocacy, Technical Cooperation and International Collaboration as Tools with a view to Developing a Policy Framework for Hazardous Substances

May 2006

1. Report of the Director-General. ILO programme implementation 2004-05. Report 95 I (A)

   23 May 2006

April 2006

1. ILO activities in the Americas, 2003-2006. Report of the Director-General (Annex). Sixteenth American Regional Meeting, Brasilia, May 2000

   07 April 2006

   Summarizes the principal outcome of ILO work in the region. Includes listings of technical cooperation projects and of books, reports, CD-ROMs, videos, and CINTERFOR publications issued. The report, prepared for the ILO’s 16th American Regional Meeting in Brasilia, 2006, looks at the progress and outcomes of the ILO’s programmes in the region to date.

November 2004

1. 

   Les normes internationales du travail: un patrimoine pour l'avenir. Mélanges en l'honneur de Nicolas Valticos (E/F/S)

   18 November 2004

   «Progrès et stabilité sont donc bien deux fonctions parallèles – et en réalité complémentaires – des normes internationales du travail. Sans stabilité, en effet, le progrès risque d’être précaire et de se voir à tout moment remis en question. Sans progrès, d’autre part, la stabilité risque d’aboutir à l’immobilisme et, finalement, de s’effondrer, les structures vieillies éclatant sous la pression des changements nécessaires.»

June 2004

1. Constitution of the International Labour Organisation and standing orders of the International Labour Conference (Edition May 2004, Bilingual E/F)

   03 June 2004

   Bilingual texts of the ILO Constitution, the Standing Orders of the International Labour Conference as at its 85th (1997) session, and the Agreement between the United Nations and the International Labour Organization (1946).

October 2003

1. The Committee of Experts on the application of Conventions and Recommendations: Its dynamic and impact

   27 October 2003

   Describes the composition and functioning of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and reviews cases of progress in relation to the application of eight fundamental Conventions. Also lists cases of progress in relation to the implementation of the "priority and technical" conventions from 1988 to 2002 and the fundamental conventions from 1978 to 2003.

September 1998

1. International labour standards, 4th edition. Workers educational manual

   14 September 1998

   Provides an overview of the ILO's standard-setting activities. Outlines the procedures for the adoption of standards. Analyses supervisory and promotional activities designed to ensure effective application. Cover developments up to mid-1997.

July 1995

1. The ILO in the service of social progress (2nd edition). A workers’ education manual

   24 July 1995

   Includes the text of the Philadelphia Declaration and the ILO organizational chart, May 1994.