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Welcome to the ILO online bookshop. Here you can purchase a wide selection of ILO publications, reports, training manuals, CD-ROMs, videos. The ILO publications programme contributes to the ILO mission of promoting opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.

Books

Featured

  • The global employment challenge - Buy now
    This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the state of employment in the world today, providing a detailed and comprehensive picture of the serious challenges faced by today's policy-makers...
  • Vocational training and productivity - Buy now
    24 June 2008 - Due to their contribution to the development of skills and competencies, vocational training institutions are a source of comparative advantages to promote the growth in productivity and reflect such growth in more and better jobs. A better access to relevant...
  • From conflict to cooperation: Labour market reforms that can work in Nepal - Buy now
    28 May 2008 - This book reviews the history of labour relations in Nepal and considers criticisms of the existing industrial relations system. It reports on the re-emergence of the militant Maoist trade union and the recent upsurge in strikes and demonstrations in Nepal. ...
  • Saving lives, protecting jobs. (Second report) - Buy now
    23 May 2008 - This second report documents the fine work carried out by ministries of labour, employers' and workers' organizations and partner enterprises. It gives an insight into this ILO/USDOL partnership which has been running for five years. It includes a special focus on the experiences and achievements of the pioneer country projects in Belize, Benin, Cambodia, Ghana, Guyana, India and Togo. ...

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Forthcoming publications

  • Compendium of Maritime Labour Instruments
    15 July 2008 - This essential new reference source presents the full text of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, along with a collection of related standards, including the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185), the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. ...
  • Safety and health in underground coalmines, ILO code of practice
    15 June 2008 - This code of practice on safety and health in underground coalmines reflects the many changes in the industry and its workforce, as well as new developments in occupational safety and health policies and ILO instruments on occupational safety and health. ...
  • Globalization, flexibilization and working conditions in Asia and the Pacific
    15 June 2008 - This unique study reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and the increasing pressures towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the divergent experiences of individual workers regarding their employment conditions. (Please find more details in abstract.) Price: 150 Sw.frs.; US$120; £59.95; 110 Euros
  • Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. Second edition
    31 May 2008 - This second edition covers new areas of OHS such as the recent ILO standard on the promotion of OSH, HIV/AIDS and the world of work, occupational safety and health management systems, and new chemical safety information tools. (Price: 40 Sw.frs.; US$ 34.95; UK£ 18.95; € 26)

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Special offers

  • Today's special offers
    Items on the special offer: Yearbook of Labour Statistics: Time series and Country profiles (Trilingual: En, Fr, Sp)
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