The basic proposal of this study is to
show that it is feasible and profitable to enhance the productivity
and working conditions of organisations through the ongoing
learning of their personnel. It particularly analyses ways and
instruments for managing training that have made it possible
to exert an influence on the improvement of productivity and
working conditions in enterprises of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Therefore, specific experiences of methodologies tried at enterprises
in countries of the region, particularly Mexico and Dominican
Republic have been taken as a basis.
The new local development approaches have
opened up great opportunities for improvement in training and
youth employment policies, which have been the subject of searching
debates over the last few decades. When we consider young people
not so much as a statistical category, or as a group with certain
disadvantages that make it more difficult for them to find employment,
but more as active participants in their own development and
that of the community, we will be closer to the target of having
integral strategies for training and for promoting decent work.
When we particularly take into account the characteristics of
local territories and societies as well as their productive
networks, we know more about youth problems and opportunities
and we get closer to the objective of having a relevant, useful
and quality training.
This book suggests a model of Education
for Work that may be applied in poor rural and urban populations.
This model is the result of the Comayagua Project on Education
for Work (POCET), an experience carried out in the Republic
of Honduras between 1990 and 1996, although it also includes
the knowledge obtained in experiences of adult education developed
in other countries of the world and particularly in Latin America.
This book edited by María de Ibarrola
offers a different perspective to approach the relations between
training and work. Instead of selecting the training programmes
in a linear way, using criteria such as whether they involve
schooling or not, the features of the institutions that offer
them, the follow-up of graduates or the effects on employment,
work and income, this book gives an open look to what is going
on in a city or a local context in terms of training for the
young.
This manual is divided in two sections.
The first one seeks to spread and provide workers and rural
producers with a clear and simple summary of the legal regulations
of the sector in Uruguay concerning the rights and duties of
rural workers.
The second section -complementing labour legislation - is oriented
to prevent risks and accidents that may occur while carrying
out their jobs.
Selection of articles from Cinterfor
Bulletin and other Cinterfor/ILO's publications
Irigoin, María E. Las
escuelas técnicas agrarias. (Agricultural technical
schools). Bulletin. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. Number: 141. Oct-Dec,
1997. p. 29-50.
Neiman, G. Comentarios
al estudio de México. (Comments to the Mexican Study).
In: Training, poverty and exclusion, Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO,
2000. 375p. (Tools for change, 12). p.367
Report for discussion at the Tripartite
Meeting on Moving to Sustainable Agricultural Development through
the Modernization of Agriculture and Employment in a Globalized
Economy. Geneva, 2000.
Most working children are found toiling
in the fields and fisheries of the world, not in factories. This
basic fact about child labour is often ignored in favour of an
urban and industrial view of what constitutes child labour. This
urban image has its origins in the struggle against child labour
in the nineteenth century in Europe. But even at the time, most
children in Europe were working in the rural areas on family farms,
where it was taken for granted. This neglect of agricultural child
labour, linked to an unquestioned assumption that children working
on farms and in fisheries are less likely to be at risk than urban
workers, still prevails today. As a result of this cultural attitude,
a false view of the child labour problem is promoted and legislation
that would protect children fails to cover most agricultural settings
where they work.
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