Publications on tripartism and social dialogue

  1. Publication

    Workers’ resistance against Nazi Germany at the International Labour Conference 1933

    23 October 2013

    Eighty years ago, the delegation of national socialist Germany made an early exit from the International Labour Conference. An attempt to install the German Labour Front as legitimate worker representatives, instead of the free trade unions,had failed due to resistance from the Workers’ Group and, not least, the persistent silence maintained by Wilhelm Leuschner, the German unions’ representative on the ILO Governing Body.

  2. Working paper

    Regional Trade Agreements and domestic labour market regulation

    11 May 2012

    Employment Working Paper No. 120

  3. Publication

    IJLR - Towards a Sustainable Economic Recovery: The case for a wage-led policies

    22 November 2011

    International Journal of Labour Research - IJLR, Vol.III/2, 2011. While much attention has been deservedly given to the financial roots of the current economic crisis, the role of wages as a cause as well as a solution has yet to be fully understood. To help fill this gap, this issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is largely dedicated to this topic.

  4. Publication

    IJLR - Trade union strategies towards global production systems

    21 October 2009

    IJLR, Vol. I/1, 2009 - This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research emphasizes on the emergence of global production systems and the consequences for trade unions. These include the increasingly international challenges trade unions are facing, as well as the necessity to develop new strategies for effective organization and collective bargaining in order to take advantage of the opportunities presented by globalization.

  5. Publication

    Forced labour - Mini action guide for trade unions

    21 May 2008

    Mini action guide designed by the International Trade Union Confederation, with the support of the ILO Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour