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Advancing the 2030 Agenda through the Social and Solidarity Economy

The social and solidarity economy (SSE) is a dynamic force for change that is key to realizing the paradigm shift called for in the 2030 Agenda. This Position Paper of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy...

Labour relations

Good employee relation practices in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and lessons learnt: India

This research report, done with EFI and AIOE illustrates the value of good labour relations practices, based on strong cooperation between management and trade unions, in effectively responding to crises.

Working conditions in BWJ participating non-garment factories

Mapping table

Mapping of organizations, institutions and companies developing digital solutions to address forced labour in the fisheries sector

This mapping provides a snapshot of digital solutions that are being used or are in the process of being developed or trialled to address labour rights abuses and forced labour in the fisheries sector.

Brochure- Africa Regional Social Protection Strategy, 2021-2025

Social protection: a human right

Review of National Regulatory Frameworks and Structures in the Agriculture Sector: A Study on Agriculture Sector Compliance and...

The study reviews the national regulatory frameworks and structures in the agriculture sector, and presents analysis of the institutional framework and practices relevant to agriculture workers’ access to employment, training opportunities,...

Review of National Regulatory Frameworks and Structures in the Agriculture Sector: A Study on Agriculture Sector Compliance and...

The study reviews the national regulatory frameworks and structures in the agriculture sector, and presents analysis of the institutional framework and practices relevant to agriculture workers’ access to employment, training opportunities,...

Executive Summary

Trade Union Revitalization: Organizing new forms of work including platform workers (Executive Summary)

International Journal of Labour Research

Trade Union Revitalization: Organizing new forms of work including platform workers

The 2022 edition of the International Journal of Labour Research comes at a critical time, marked both by multidimensional crises affecting many countries around the world and by a surge in the attraction and influence of trade unions in responding...

International Journal of Labour Research

Trade union revitalization: navigating uncertainty, change and resilience in the world of work

This article assesses six innovative approaches to trade union revitalization through the lens of the unions’ ability to navigate change. It introduces the “triple-A governance” framework, based on the three pillars of anticipation (the ability to...

International Journal of Labour Research

Unity and Revitalization of Trade Unions in Africa

This paper follows the history of organized trade unionism in Africa, from popularity and power in the 1980s to disaffection and splintering into multiple unions at regional, subregional and national level in the 1990s and beyond. It analyses the...

International Journal of Labour Research

New wine in old bottles: organizing and collective bargaining in the platform economy

This article presents a non-exhaustive review of recent forms of organizing and mobilizing platform workers across Europe, with the objective of mapping current variations in trade union strategies towards technological change and analytically...

International Journal of Labour Research

Digital activism as a pathway to trade union revitalization

Technological change is of critical importance for the future of unions. On the one hand, the rapid rise of the platform economy and the decentring of industrial work pose an enormous threat to their very existence. On the other hand, digital tools...

International Journal of Labour Research

Trade union responses to organizing workers on digital labour platforms: A six-country study

This paper examines the changing dynamics of the employment relationship in the digital economy and its implications for the continuous adaptation of freedom of association and protection of the workers’ right to organize in the AsiaPacific region....

International Journal of Labour Research

Voice and representation for ridehailing drivers in sub-Saharan Africa: Pathways for trade union revitalization?

This paper seeks to explore the extent to which new players and nonconventional strategies shape the collective representation and voice of platform workers. Drawing on secondary sources, the paper systematically argues that traditional trade union...

International Journal of Labour Research

Trade union revitalization in the United States of America: A call for a labour movement programme in support of self-organizing workers

From a peak of one third of the workforce in 1955 and still over 20 per cent in 1983, at present only 10.3 per cent of United States workers remain members of trade unions. A significant trend of worker self-organizing and formation of new...

International Journal of Labour Research

Challenges of trade unionism in the face of new forms of work organization

This article describes the structural characteristics of work in Latin America and the Caribbean, in which a pattern of subordination to the interests of capital accumulation and large transnational companies has historically predominated,...

Child labour stand-alone surveys compendium

This Child Labour Stand-alone Surveys Compendium offers governments a specialized tool to conduct focused surveys dedicated exclusively to the issue of child labour.

Report

Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022

This new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) provides the latest estimates of renewable energy employment globally.

Extension of social protection coverage to workers in the informal economy in Sudan

This study reviews how social protection could be extended to workers in the informal economy by undertaking a comprehensive analysis of the existing social protection schemes, their design, and their delivery mechanisms in Sudan.