Publications

Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204)-Workers' Guide

24 February 2017

The Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), adopted by the International Labour Conference (ILC) in June 2015, is the first international instrument dealing specifically with the informal economy. This Workers’ Guide was prepared with the objective of encouraging and assisting workers’ organizations at all levels to protect and promote the rights and working conditions of workers in the informal economy and to implement Recommendation No. 204.

A just transition for all: Can the past inform the future?

11 June 2015

2015 is a decisive year for global agreements on Sustainable Development and climate change. The ILO calls for a just transition for all towards a greener and more socially sustainable economy. This Journal is focussing on drawing lessons from a few transition experiences in order to analyse how successfully (or not) these processes were managed in the past and how future transitions might be handled in a just manner. Challenges such as policy coherence, consultations and participation by all relevant stakeholders are addressed and lessons learned on these issues are highlighted in the Journal.

Job preservation through worker cooperatives: An overview of international experiences and strategies

08 October 2014

This book has been written to fill a gap in the literature. At a basic level, it is meant to inform of successful cases of job preservation through the creation of worker cooperatives in different regions of the world. More importantly, it is meant to elucidate the conditions of success for such attempts at recovery and to draw the important lessons learned by workers and their organizations in dealing with them.

Achieving Decent Work for Domestic Workers

22 May 2012

An organizer’s manual to promote ILO convention no. 189 and build domestic workers’ power.

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.

Towards an integrated market in South-East Asia: The ASEAN experience The trade union agenda

01 April 1999

Labour Education 1999/4 No. 117: The articles which appear in this edition are the fruit of our promise to analyse the experiences of regional economic integration in other continents, in the same fashion as the Common Market of the Southern Cone (MERCOSUR) was addressed in an earlier edition (see No. 109 – 1997/4)

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