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Global Employment Trends 2013
29 January 2013
 The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-126655-6
Price: TT$99.00; US$15.00
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Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and regional statistics and the extent of legal protection
09 January 2013
 This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often “invisible” behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-125273-3
Price: TT$115.50; US$18.00
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Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
15 December 2012
 Part of the Global Employment Trends series, this publication delivers the most current information on emerging trends and key challenges facing women in labour markets around the world. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-126657-0
Price: TT$82.50; US$13.00
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Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth
07 December 2012
 The Global Wage Report 2012/13 looks at differences in wages around the globe and how they have been influenced by the economic crisis. It includes global and regional wage trends and statistics, as well as policy recommendations. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-126236-7
Price: TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Gender Equality and Decent Work: Selected ILO Conventions and Recommendations that promote gender equality as of 2012
17 October 2012
 This guide provides the text of some of the key Conventions for promoting gender equality in the world of work. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-125534-5
Price: TT$92.40; US$14.00
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Labour in the Global South: Challenges and alternatives for workers
20 September 2012
 “Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.” −Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-126238-1
Price: TT$132.00; US$21.00
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Confronting Finance: Mobilizing the 99% for economic and social progress
15 June 2012
 This new anthology of essays from the Global Labour Column explores Europe’s turmoil and challenges the deep-rooted consequences of neoliberalism in the North and the South. It sheds light on new movements and ideas which are emerging to defend and mobilize workers, and points to encouraging new policies and directions which could lay the foundations of a new order that would put decent work and life at its core. A number of these come from the South, from which the North may have much to learn. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-126213-8
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Working towards sustainable development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy
12 June 2012
 This joint ILO/UNEP study shows that, if accompanied by the right policy mix, a green economy can also create more and better jobs, lift people out of poverty and promote social inclusion. It also demonstrates that employment and social inclusion must be an integral part of any sustainable development strategy. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-126378-4
Price: TT$198.00; US$31.00
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Effective Protection for Domestic Workers: A guide to designing labour laws
23 May 2012
 This guide is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labour laws, including government officials and representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations. At the 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011, the ILO adopted Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 on decent work for domestic workers. Because domestic workers are often excluded from the protection of labour laws or are treated less favourably than other wage workers, implementing the basic principles embodied in Convention No. 189 calls for an assessment and strengthening of national labour laws. With the Convention No. 189 as its underlying framework, this volume provides specific guidelines and complements these with examples drawn from a wide range of existing national labour laws concerning domestic workers. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-125275-7
Price: TT$165.00; US$26.00 |
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International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08): Structure, group definitions and correspondence tables
10 May 2012
 The International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) is a four-level hierarchically structured classification that covers all jobs in the world. Developed with the benefit of accumulated national and international experience as well as the help of experts from many countries and agencies, ISCO-08 is fully supported by the international community as an accepted standard for international labour statistics.
ISCO-08 classifies jobs into 436 unit groups. These unit groups are aggregated into 130 minor groups, 43 sub-major groups and 10 major groups, based on their similarity in terms of the skill level and skill specialization required for the jobs. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-125952-7
Price: TT$231.00; US$36.00
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Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium. Vol. II
10 April 2012
 'Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium, volume II', is a unique collection of recent practices and emerging ideas in microinsurance. It covers the numerous innovations that have emerged in recent years to meet the challenges of providing insurance to low-income people, from new products and delivery channels to consumer education tools, while examining institutional changes in regulations, providers and schemes. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-125744-8
Price: TT$363.00; US$57.00 |
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World of Work Report 2012 'Better Jobs for a Better Economy'
26 April 2012
 The World of Work Report 2012 provides a comprehensive analysis of recent labour market and social trends, assesses risks of social unrest and presents employment projections for the next five years. The report emphasizes that while employment has begun to recover slowly, job quality is deteriorating and there is a growing sense of unfairness. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-9251-009-1
Price: TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Human Rights, Development and Decolonization. The International Labour Organization, 1940–70
31 January 2012
 The significance of international organizations as historical actors is one of the least researched aspects twentieth-century history. Daniel Maul's study of the role of the ILO during the core phase of decolonization (1940 to 1970) opens up new perspectives on the topic. Clearly presented, methodologically innovative and based on a wide range of sources, the book makes clear the multifarious ways in which the ILO contributed, both as a political hub and a forum for debate and as an independent actor, to the debates which accompanied the dissolution of the European colonial empires and the processes of post-colonial nation-building that followed. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-121991-0
Price TT$280.50; US$44.00 |
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Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis
24 January 2012
 The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.
The Global Employment Trends 2012 takes stock of labour market developments and emerging challenges as the world continues to struggle to forge a sustainable recovery from the global economic and jobs crisis. Read More
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Measuring the Economically Active in Population Censuses: A Handbook
20 January 2012
 The Handbook provides guidance on the measurement of economic characteristics in population censuses, based on relevant experiences of countries, with a particular focus on the questions used and the requirements for processing of responses. The Handbook is intended to provide census planners with a variety of approaches to assess the questions and methods of collecting economic characteristics used in their national census, as they evaluate the performance in the past decade and plan for the 2010 round of censuses (2005-2014). Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-124105-8
Price TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Stress Prevention at Work Checkpoints. Practical improvements for stress prevention in the workplace
06 January 2012
 Work-related stress is one of the most important issues in many countries. The negative impacts of stress are multiform and can include circulatory and gastrointestinal diseases as well as physical, psychosomatic and psycho-social problems. These in turn can lead to poor work performance, high accident and injury rates, and low productivity. It is therefore of vital importance to optimize work conditions and organization. This manual includes easy-to-apply checkpoints for identifying stressors in working life and mitigating their harmful effects. It also provides guidance on linking workplace risk assessment with the process of stress prevention. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-125637-3
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Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture
06 January 2012
 Agriculture is one of the most hazardous sectors in both developing and developed countries. Increasing attention is being given to applying practical actions in rural and agricultural settings to reduce work-related accidents and diseases, improve living conditions and increase productivity. Reports from many countries have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of ergonomic innovations that have improved working and living conditions in rural and agricultural settings. Building on these good examples, this manual is intended to present practical and concrete guidance on easy-to-implement ergonomic improvements, most particularly in developing countries. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-125448-5
Price TT$132.00; US$21.00 |
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World of Work Report 2011: Making Markets Work for Jobs
31 October 2011
 The 'World of Work Report 2011' shows that it will not be possible to recover successfully from the Great Recession unless social inequalities are addressed through well-designed policies. Growing youth unemployment, income inequalities made worse as a result of rising food and oil prices, and other social inequities undermine support for pro-growth policies. They also entail a risk of social unrest which has started to materialize in the Arab region, some Asian countries and the Euro area. And they deprive the world economy from the kind of income growth that is needed in order to ensure sustainable economic recovery. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-9014-974-3
Price TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Trade Unions and the Global Crisis: Labour’s Visions, Strategies and Responses
September 30, 2011
 If the recent global economic crisis has debilitated labour in many parts of the world, many segments of the trade union movement have been fighting back, combining traditional and innovative strategies and articulating alternatives to the dominant political and economic models. This book offers a composite overview of the responses of trade unions and other workers’ organizations to neoliberal globalization in general and to the recent financial crisis in particular. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-124926-9
Price: TT$132.00; US$21.00
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Shaping Global Industrial Relations. The Impact of International Framework Agreements
September 30, 2011
 In recent years, many multinational enterprises have adopted corporate codes of conduct with social provisions. Increasingly, they are now signing international framework agreements (IFAs) with global unions representing workers by sector of activity. In addition to regulating labour–management relations across global value chains, these agreements aim to promote compliance with ILO core labour standards. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-124587-2
Price: TT$363.00; US$57.00
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The Global Crisis. Causes, responses and challenges
June 13, 2011
This important collection of essays brings together the main findings of ILO research since the start of the global financial and economic crisis in 2008. With contributions from diverse research disciplines, the volume provides new perspectives on employment and income-led growth and the role of regulation, and makes policy recommendations for the future. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-124579-7
Price: TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Regulating for Decent Work. New directions in labour market regulation
June 13, 2011
 This book, the first in the new series Advances in Labour Studies, is an international and interdisciplinary response to the neoliberal ideologies that have shaped labour market regulation in recent decades. It draws on contributions by leading experts across a range of disciplines, including economics, law, political science and industrial relations. International in scope, it includes chapters on both advanced economies (Canada, Europe, United States) and the developing world (Brazil, China, Indonesia, Tanzania).
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ISBN: 978-92-2-124559-9
Price: TT$363.00; US$57.00
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The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy: Negotiating for Social Justice
May 30, 2011
 This book looks at the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. The various authors examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. Read More
ISBN: 978-92-2-124099-0
Price: TT$165.00; US$26.00
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Making recovery sustainable: Lessons from country innovations
March 28, 2011
 Synthesis of a new series of “Studies on Growth with Equity”, this paper by the International Institute for Labour Studies of the ILO shows that growth and equity can be achieved in parallel if the right mix of policies is put in place. It is based on findings from reviews for three countries (Brazil, Germany and Indonesia) which are available hereunder. The paper highlights the efficiency of employment-centred projects that create more and better jobs and improve long-term productivity. “Reducing the current job quality gap will not only achieve equity objectives but - with the right policy mix - can enhance productivity and future resilience to economic shocks,” the paper says.
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ISBN: 978-92-9014-968-2
Price: TT$33.00; US$5.00
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Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery
January 1, 2011
 The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a short-term outlook for labour markets around the world.
This report is the first to take stock of the labour market situation during the recovery from the global economic crisis. It incorporates the most recent labour market information available to explore the state of the labour market globally and regionally. Read More
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The Employment Relationship: A comparative overview
January 5, 2011
 This book presents the complex relation of labour legislation to the employment relationship, reporting on the many terms, notions, definitions, laws and practice in the various regions of the world. The issue of who is or is not in an employment relationship has become problematic in recent decades as a result of major changes in work organization as well as in the adequacy of legal regulation in adapting to such changes. In different parts of the world, there are increasing difficulties with establishing whether or not an employment relationship exists in situations where the respective rights and obligations of the parties concerned are not clear, where there has been an attempt to disguise the employment relationship, or where inadequacies or gaps exist in legal frameworks or in their interpretation or application. Read More
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List of occupational diseases (revised 2010). Identification and recognition of occupational diseases: Criteria for incorporating diseases in the ILO list of occupational diseases (OSH 74)
December 1, 2010
 The new list includes a range of internationally recognized occupational diseases, from illnesses caused by chemical, physical and biological agents to respiratory and skin diseases, musculoskeletal disorders and occupational cancer. Mental and behavioural disorders have been, for the first time, specifically included in the ILO list. Read More
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Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis
December 15, 2010
 The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. In Part I, the report highlights the slow down in the growth of monthly average wages as well as some short-term fluctuations in the wage share. Part II of the report discusses the role of wage policies in times of crisis and recovery. Part III concludes with a summary of the report and highlights issues that are critical for improving wage policies.
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Extending Social Security to All
November 16, 2010
 This book outlines basic concepts such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase, analyses the affordability of various approaches, and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Social security represents an investment in a country's "human infrastructure" no less important than investments in its physical infrastructure. At an early stage of economic development the priority is, of course, to put in place a basic level of provision; the evidence adduced in this Guide points to its affordability for, essentially, every country. While this message lies at the heart of the Guide, it is important to keep in mind that, at a later stage, the basic level can and should be augmented, and the ILO's long-standing approach to social security offers the framework to do so. Read More
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World Social Security Report 2010/11. Providing coverage in times of crisis and beyond
November 16, 2010
 This is the first in a new series of biennial reports that aim to map social security coverage globally, to presenting various methods and approaches for assessing coverage, and to identifying gaps in coverage. Backed by much comparative statistical data, this first report takes a comprehensive look at how countries are investing in social security, how they are financing it, and how effective their approaches are. The report examines the ways selected international organizations (the EU, OECD and ADB) monitor social protection and the correlation of social security coverage and the ILO Decent Work Indicators. The report's final section features a typology of national approaches to social security, with a focus on countries' responses to the economic crisis of 2008 -- and the lessons to be learned, especially concerning the short- and long-term management of pension schemes. Read More
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The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009
 The International Labour Organization was founded in 1919 in the belief that peace and social justice go hand in hand. This book explores key ideas that the ILO has championed and applied through the political and economic upheavals of the last 90 years.: rights at work, the quality of employment, income protection, employment and poverty reduction, a fair globalization and today's overriding goal of decent work for all. Read more
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Fundamentals of Labour Administration
 In the context of the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the ILO in June 2009, the strengthening of labour administration is a core objective in the promotion of sound and efficient economic and social policies at both international and national levels. Current challenges such as the crisis in employment require the adoption and implementation of responsive and efficient labour policies that can be put into practice through well-coordinated and efficiently operating labour administration machinery, including viable labour ministries, effective employment services, adequate information and proper consultation of social partners. Read more
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Building Rural Roads
09 July 2009
 This manual attempts to present a set of technical solutions and works methods commonly applied in a number of countries where the use of local resources is given serious consideration when building rural roads. Based on best practices from rural road-building programmes in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, it describes a set of work methods and procedures proven to be effective both in terms of cost and quality. Read more
ISBN: 978-92-2-120977-5
Price: TT$148.510; US$23.00
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