Publications

Digitalize, adapt and innovate: Challenges and opportunities for trade unions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery period

02 July 2021

This article explores the emerging challenges for workers’ organizations that intersect with digital technology deficits at national level and growing informalization, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although specific reference is given to Africa, these challenges are generally applicable across the globe. The article suggests solutions and recommends actions, arguing that the adoption of these technologies by trade unions provides opportunities and benefits which might not otherwise be realized through physical meetings, conferences and interactions.

COVID-19 and Recovery: The Role of Trade Unions in Building Forward Better

24 June 2021

This year's International Journal of Labour Research explores strategies for workers and their organizations to shape COVID-19 response policies as well as adapting internally to provide vital services to workers and continue fulfilling their societal role as advocate for social justice and workers’ rights. As such, the journal reveals key findings on various topics that are of special interest to trade unions and provide guidance on policies in building forward better.

Multimedia convergence: Breaking the silence

02 January 1998

Labour Education 1998/1-2 Nos. 110-111: What silence? It might seem absurd to many to address the question of multimedia convergence as the process affects workers in terms of breaking the silence. For such silence has become strident, and surrounds all the issues connected with the process of convergence.The columns which follow are part of the ILO’s efforts to ensure that the discussions which took place during the ILO Symposium onmultimedia convergence (27-29 January 1997) be addressed in further depth by experts who are close to workers’ everyday experiences of convergence.

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