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Training for decent work

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001
 104 p. (Training features, 12)

ISBN 92-9088-125-9
US$ 15.00

493kb Complete document in pdf format

 

 It may call the attention that decency and work will join together as a new compound, when, not so far, the expression "a working man" was synonym of a "a decent person". What has happened since then so as to be necessary , in the threshold of a new millennium, "create a paradigm of decent work"?

The rapidly experienced changes in the last years in the economic, political and technological spheres appear not only to be extended to the social field, but, from some points of view, join to limit wok to as mere economic factor, forgetting its human dimension, as if work was some kind of virtual space distant from the daily realities that millions of people live in all the world´s societies, dominated by the insecurity, unemployment, exclusion and poverty.

The call of alert of the ILO Director General, Juan Somavía, in his first Memory to the International Labour Conference (1999), poses the necessary assertion to endow the economic transformations of a strong ethic content, with the concepts of efficiency, productivity and flexibility, as a unique realistic strategy of growth.

Vocational training is called to play a fundamental function in the confluence of the economic interest and the social imperative, but it is necessary to raise the awareness of all social actors towards the necessity to give back the human capital its complete value, so that one day the word work would not need adjectives anymore, but would in itself imply dignity, equity and liberty.

However the attainment of decent work has been built as an ILO central objective, this book constitutes a sbstantuve contribution to the definition of the concept and to the promotion of the objective  of decent work, from the point of view of the role that vocational training plays regarding ths matter.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
JUAN SOMAVÍA, Director General ILO

FOREWORD
PEDRO DANIEL WEINBERG, Director Cinterfor/ILO

I. DECENT WORK AND TRAINING

Definition of decent work
The role of vocational training in connection with decent work

1. Vocational training as a fundamental right
2. Vocational training as an economic instrument
3. Decent Work, Vocational training and the ILO strategic objectives

II. VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND ITS LINKS WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND OTHER FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

The right to vocational training
The right to vocational training and its links with other fundamental rights
Vocational training as an instrument for equal opportunity

III. VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION

Vocational training, employment and employability
Vocational training in active employment policies
Vocational training in strategies to raise productivity
Vocational training and competitiveness strategies
Quality management in vocational training
Training along life
The occupational competencies’ approach

IV. VOCATIONAL TRAINING AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION

Vocational training for unemployed workers
The training of active workers
Vocational training for the young
Vocational training as an instrument for overcoming gender inequalities in the world of labour

V. VOCATIONAL TRAINING AS A SPACE FOR SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND  A TOOL FOR PROMOTING IT

Vocational training as a meeting point of different interests and actors
Spaces for social dialogue on vocational training
Collective bargaining and vocational training

VI. CONCLUSIONS

ACRONYMS USED

 

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