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Around the continents: review on ILO related activities
Planet Work
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Financial crisis: The gender dimension
While the sectors that initially bore the brunt of the global financial crisis were those dominated by male workers – finance, insurance and real estate, construction and manufacturing – the crisis is now hitting service-orientated sectors and wholesale retail trade, which in many industrialized economies are dominated by females. ...
The ILO photo library has a large collection of original slides and of black & white negatives from the year 1900 to date, covering themes linked to employment and conditions of work in the world.
Articles
Cover story
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Turning crisis into an opportunity: The role of social security in response and recovery
- Even before the current economic crisis, national social security systems were under intense political and economic strain. In industrialized countries, the cost was considered too high, while in many developing countries they were simply considered unaffordable. Now, the economic and social crisis has changed perceptions. ...
ILO in history
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From Bismarck to Beveridge: Social security for all
120 years ago, Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance programme, designed by Otto von Bismarck...
Featured book
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ILO, WTO joint study on trade and informal employment: Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries
This study finds that the high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries’ ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition. It is a product of the collaborative research programme of the ILO International Institute for Labour Studies and the WTO Secretariat.
