All publications: United States
Social Finance Working Paper #56: Strategies for unions to provide benefits and financial services to workers
Experiences in the United States
World of Work 2012: Country Brief on the United States
Employment growth has weakened and remains well below crisis levels while corporate profits have gone back to pre-crisis levels while business investment remains low. The path to recovery lies in moving to a comprehensive job plan.
Responsible contracting: An approach aimed at improving social and labour practices in the property services sector
Research paper on the property services sector, and in particular on the provision of cleaning and security services, prepared as background for an ILO meeting on Private employment agencies in private services sectors, 18–19 October 2011.
Working paper
Diverging trends in unemployment in the United States and Europe: Evidence from Okun's law and the global financial crisis
This paper presents estimates of Okun’s coefficients for a number of developed countries, and shows that there is considerable variation across countries, which captures the heterogeneity in the responsiveness of unemployment to the global financial...
Theme 1: The Role of Labour Court Judges in the Implementation of Social Policies - United States of America
National reports - United States
Theme 2: New Employment Relationships - United States of America
The Global Crisis. Causes, responses and challenges
This important collection of essays brings together the main findings of ILO research since the start of the global financial and economic crisis in 2008. With contributions from diverse research disciplines, the volume provides new perspectives on...
The impact of the economic and financial crisis on youth employment: Measures for labour market recovery in the European Union, Canada and...
Employment Working Paper No. 70
Skills for green jobs in the United States
Background country study
Offshoring and working conditions in remote work
Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), combined with organizations seeking to reduce costs, have led to a dramatic growth in service sector offshoring and outsourcing, most notably to developing countries such as India. This...
A survey of the Great Depression as recorded in the International Labour Review, 1931-1939
Employment Working Paper No. 42
The Slave Next Door – Human trafficking and slavery in America today
This book exposes the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.
United States - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Effective abolition of child labour (CL)
United States - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory...
United States - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Elimination of discrimination in respect of...
United States - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Freedom of association and the effective recognition...