Key publications

2011

  1. Crisis: Causes, Prospects and Alternatives

    28 June 2011

    The crisis of 2008 revealed the fault lines in the world economy for all to see. Three decades of a social experiment with radical market-oriented policies have not only failed to deliver decent standards of living to most workers around the world, but have brought us to the brink of a major world depression.

  2. Equality at work: The continuing challenge - Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

    06 June 2011

  3. Gender-based violence in the world of work: Overview and selected annotated bibliography

    24 May 2011

    This tool aims to contribute to policy development at national level, especially with entry points for responses and prevention of gender-based violence in the world of work.

  4. Climate Change and Labour: The Need for a “Just Transition”

    21 March 2011

    Climate change is now widely acknowledged as one of the great – if not the greatest – challenges facing humanity in the coming decades. Through its impact on average temperature, precipitations and sea levels, it will endanger the livelihood of hundreds of millions and impose increasing costs on our societies if nothing is done.

2010

  1. Financial Crisis, Deflation, and Trade Unions Responses: What are the Lessons?

    15 June 2010

    In January 2010, intent on drawing similar lessons from a labour perspective, the Bureau of Workers’ Activities and the Global Union Research Network organized their own workshop on “Labour and the economic crises of yesterday and today: Lessons for a just and sustainable future”. This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research brings together the various contributions that were made at that event.

2009

  1. Health and life at work: A basic human right

    28 April 2009

    “Everyone has the right to life, to work... to just and favourable conditions of work... Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family...” (From the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UN, 1948).

2002

  1. Codes of conduct and multinational enterprises. CD-ROM

    04 March 2002

    Examines 211 corporate codes of conduct and compares their content to the provisions contained in the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy with regard to freedom of association, collective bargaining, equal employment opportunity, non-discrimination, wages, health and safety standards, hours of work, training, job security, child labour and forced labour. Discusses issues of maintaining and implementing the provisions of the Declaration.