Books and reports
January 2022
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Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022
17 January 2022
This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.
December 2021
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Book
The new world of work: Challenges and opportunities for social partners and labour institutions
31 December 2021
This book examines social dialogue and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work in 34 European countries.
June 2021
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Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021
02 June 2021
In 2020, an estimated 8.8 per cent of total working hours were lost – the equivalent of the hours worked in one year by 255 million full-time workers. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world of work.
April 2020
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Report
Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration between Employers’ and Workers’ Organizations
09 April 2020
This publication looks at the role that employers and workers, through their respective organizations, play in crisis situations arising from conflict and disaster.
January 2020
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Flagship Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020
20 January 2020
This report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity.
July 2019
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Report
Time to Act for SDG 8 : Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity
10 July 2019
This report presents progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 8, analyses interlinkages with other SDGs and provides policy recommendations.
January 2019
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Global Commission on the Future of Work
Work for a brighter future
22 January 2019
This landmark report by the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work examines how to achieve a better future of work for all at a time of unprecedented change and exceptional challenges in the world of work.
December 2015
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Publication
The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim – West meets East
16 December 2015
This volume of essays considers how the ILO has helped generate a set of ideas and practices to advance social and economic reform in the Americas and the Asia Pacific.
April 2015
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Publication
The European Social Model in Crisis: Is Europe losing its soul?
27 April 2015
This book assesses the current situations in EU Member States on the basis of detailed empirical evidence and concrete case studies of the social policies that have been discontinued or altered, distinguishing between recent developments caused by the economic crisis and long-term trends.
January 2012
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Publication
Human Rights, Development and Decolonization. The International Labour Organization, 1940–70
31 January 2012
"A break-through in historical scholarship on international politics in the twentieth century in general and on the role of international organizations, human rights and development in particular. It is immensely gratifying to see this excellent book appear in English translation, which makes it available to the large international audience it deserves. A carefully drafted, well-written study, the book will become a standard work for scholars and students in history, political science, human rights and development studies." – Corinna R. Unger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany