June 2014

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   The Challenge of Inequality

   23 June 2014

   This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research addresses one of the central challenges of our times: that of overcoming growing inequalities in our societies. This trend, now well-recognized, is worrying not only for its economic impact, but as importantly because it threatens the very social fabric of our societies and may in time become a threat to democracy itself.

October 2012

1. Make poverty history-Trade Union manual on the Millennium Development Goals

   17 October 2012

   The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the main development framework for the international community since the year 2000. These goals have provided a framework for focused intergovernmental action to fight extreme poverty.

January 2006

1. Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers

   01 January 2006

   These series of Manuals was developed to help union affiliates representing agricultural workers to tackle health, safety and environmental (HSE) problems, through their training programmes.

2. Organizing out of poverty: stories from the grassroots - How the SYNDICOOP approach has worked in East Africa

   01 January 2006

   The ILO SYNDICOOP approach shows that workers can be organized in a way that offers some improvements in their daily lives and provides the voice that workers need.The stories in this publication describe the difference that this approach has made in East Africa.

January 2005

1. Fight Poverty – Organize!

   02 January 2005

   In this Labour Education 2005/1-2 No. 138-139 we analyse what does “Fight Poverty – Organize!” mean? First and foremost, it means trade unions that become an even more effective and well-honed tool for workers to escape poverty, fear, exploitation and the violation of their basic human dignity. It means being a force to replace misery and despair with progress and hope.Second, it means organizing, collective bargaining and other forms of creative social dialogue and engagement. Third, it means organizing effective trade union participation in the design and implementation of public policy based on the priorities of their members and the body of social policy enshrined in ILO Conventions. It also means engaging in the struggle for democratic governance, employment and quality public services to the unemployed, underemployed, and working poor if they are to lift themselves out of poverty.

January 2004

1. Trade unions and poverty reduction strategies

   02 January 2004

   The contributors to this edition of Labour Education 2004/1-2 No. 134-135, do not just point to the gaps in the current PRSP process. They are unanimous in stressing the potential for developing country governments to devise policy options that truly reflect national priorities, including employment-creation strategies, social protection and better health and education.