Books and reports

June 2021

  1. Book

    Internships, Employability and the Search for Decent Work Experience

    17 June 2021

    This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships, and the policy issues that they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work.

January 2021

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    Working from home: From invisibility to decent work

    13 January 2021

    With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.

May 2020

  1. Publication

    Organizing matters: Two logics of trade union representation

    14 May 2020

    This book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities in an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment.

May 2019

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    General Labour History of Africa: Workers, employers and governments, 20th-21st Centuries

    01 May 2019

    This volume brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations.

February 2009

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    Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008

    03 February 2009

    This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.

February 2008

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    Eliminating discrimination against indigenous and tribal peoples in employment and occupation. A guide to ILO Convention No. 111

    01 February 2008

    This guide, which is part of a broader effort by the ILO to support the development and implementation of national laws and policies guided by international labour and human standards, is intended to serve indigenous peoples and their representatives as a source of information and a tool for engaging with policy and decision makers. It is also a tool for the broader development community, including international and national development professionals.

May 2007

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    Working for better times. Rethinking work for the 21st century

    08 May 2007

    This volume offers unique insights into current thinking and policy options on these crucial issues. It consists of a selection of articles from the ILO's flagship journal, the International Labour Review, including contributions by such distinguished scholars as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Sir Bob Hepple, and Alain Supiot. Includes an introduction by Jean Michel Servais.

May 2006

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    Changing patterns in the world of work. Report of the Director General. International Labour Conference, 95th Session, 2006. Report I (C)

    23 May 2006

November 2005

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    2005 Labour Overview - Latin America and the Caribbean

    09 November 2005

    This report provides a valuable assessment of the current economic and labour market situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. It examines how, overall, healthy economic performance has led to improvements in the regional labour market, but that unemployment in the region still remains high.