Publications on working time
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Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 2
Working hours in domestic work
19 May 2011
This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
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Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 27
The legal regulation of working time in domestic work
19 January 2011
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Offshoring and working conditions in remote work
07 June 2010
Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), combined with organizations seeking to reduce costs, have led to a dramatic growth in service sector offshoring and outsourcing, most notably to developing countries such as India. This is a co-publication with Palgrave MacMillan Publishing.
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“Become a man instead of a mere machine”: The ILO and trends in working hours
01 April 2010
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes imagined a world in which, a hundred years later, work would be to a large extent replaced by leisure. He speculated about a three-hour shift and a 15-hour working week by 2030.
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INWORK Policy Brief No. 2
New developments in work sharing in middle-income countries
01 February 2010
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Offshoring and employment in the developing world: Business process outsourcing in the Philippines
20 November 2009
Employment Working Paper No. 41
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A survey of the Great Depression as recorded in the International Labour Review, 1931-1939
15 October 2009
Employment Working Paper No. 42
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INWORK Policy Brief No. 1
Work sharing: A strategy to preserve jobs during the global jobs crisis
01 June 2009
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Report II - Measurement of working time - 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November - 5 December 2008
02 March 2009
The International Labour Organization has long been concerned with the regulation of working time as one aspect which has a direct and measurable impact on the health and well-being of working persons, their level of fatigue and stress (and on that of the people close to them). It also has an important impact on productivity levels and labour costs for establishments, and on the general quality of life in all countries.
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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.