Books and reports
June 2021
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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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Publication
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
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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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Publication
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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Publication
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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60 Sw.frs.; US$49.95; UK£29.95; €42
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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Publication
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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Publication
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.