Books and reports

October 2019

  1. Book

    The International Labour Organization: 100 years of global social policy

    29 October 2019

    This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization’s 100-year history.

June 2019

  1. Book

    If you want peace, cultivate justice: A photographic history of the ILO, 1919–2019

    10 June 2019

May 2013

  1. Publication

    Handbook on Residential Property Prices Indices (RPPIs). 2013 edition

    31 May 2013

    RPPIs are key statistics for economic and monetary policy-makers as well as for citizens and households across the world. Among their professional uses, they serve to monitor macroeconomic imbalances and the risk exposure of the financial sector.

April 2009

  1. Publication

    Edward Phelan and the ILO: Life and views of an international social actor

    27 April 2009

    This book is a remarkable portrait of Edward J. Phelan (1888-1967), a man who dedicated his life to social justice and whose views and actions guided the work of the ILO for decades.

January 2008

  1. Publication

    Record of Proceedings (L)

    01 January 2008

    The Record of Proceedings presents detailed contents of the debates by the member State representatives during the International Labour Conference

November 2007

  1. Publication

    Background information for developing an ILO policy framework for hazardous substances

    22 November 2007

    Document for discussion at the Meeting of Experts to Examine Instruments, Knowledge, Advocacy, Technical Cooperation and International Collaboration as Tools with a view to Developing a Policy Framework for Hazardous Substances

May 2006

  1. Publication

    Report of the Director-General. ILO programme implementation 2004-05. Report 95 I (A)

    23 May 2006

April 2006

  1. Publication

    ILO activities in the Americas, 2003-2006. Report of the Director-General (Annex). Sixteenth American Regional Meeting, Brasilia, May 2000

    07 April 2006

    Summarizes the principal outcome of ILO work in the region. Includes listings of technical cooperation projects and of books, reports, CD-ROMs, videos, and CINTERFOR publications issued. The report, prepared for the ILO’s 16th American Regional Meeting in Brasilia, 2006, looks at the progress and outcomes of the ILO’s programmes in the region to date.

November 2004

  1. Publication

    Les normes internationales du travail: un patrimoine pour l'avenir. Mélanges en l'honneur de Nicolas Valticos (E/F/S)

    18 November 2004

    «Progrès et stabilité sont donc bien deux fonctions parallèles – et en réalité complémentaires – des normes internationales du travail. Sans stabilité, en effet, le progrès risque d’être précaire et de se voir à tout moment remis en question. Sans progrès, d’autre part, la stabilité risque d’aboutir à l’immobilisme et, finalement, de s’effondrer, les structures vieillies éclatant sous la pression des changements nécessaires.»

June 2004

  1. Publication

    Constitution of the International Labour Organisation and standing orders of the International Labour Conference (Edition May 2004, Bilingual E/F)

    03 June 2004

    Bilingual texts of the ILO Constitution, the Standing Orders of the International Labour Conference as at its 85th (1997) session, and the Agreement between the United Nations and the International Labour Organization (1946).