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Country Profiles offers a new format showing the latest available statistics (without time series) on the topics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labor cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries, and strikes and lockouts, for over 200 countries, areas, and territories. It also includes global and regional estimates on the economically active population, employment, and unemployment. This ...

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The ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis was held in June 2009 in response to the financial crisis and its grave impact on global unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Addressed by heads of state and government, vice presidents, ministers, and leaders of workers' and employers' organizations from around the world, the summit featured three days of intense debate on different aspects of the crisis. Presenting summaries of the panel debates alo...

Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of the highly successful Ergonomic Checkpoints is aimed at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health, and working conditions. Building on the wealth of experience of practitioners in applying these checkpoints, the second edition features revised text, additional checkpoints, and new, full-color illustrations. The manual presents 132 realistic and flexible solutions t...

Workers exposed to ionizing radiation in the course of their work may claim for compensation if they develop cancer. However, cancer is a common disease, especially in older age, and most cancers will be caused by nonoccupational risk factors. Compiled by international experts, this book examines in detail the scientific basis for risk attribution, focusing in particular on the methodological issues associated with attributing individual cance...

Forced labor and human trafficking have evolved into numerous and often subtle forms of abuse and exploitation, posing a challenge for law enforcement. This casebook covers a range of national experience, from judicial decisions on forced and bonded labor in developing countries to more recent decisions on forced labor and trafficking in industrialized countries. It seeks to illustrate how national court decisions have taken into account the p...

The International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in the fall of 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics of all relevant disciplines-industrial relations, socio...

In order to promote equality between women and men in the world of work, international labor standards and national legislation have been adopted on a wide range of related issues. However, workers are often unaware of their rights derived from these standards-a fact that has been increasingly identified as a major obstacle to their effective use. This revised and expanded edition focuses on states' or employers' obligations and workers' right...

The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for purposes of economic and social policy-making, especially monetary policy and social policy, and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses, and workers as well as households. This important and comprehensive manual provides guidelines for statistical offices and ot...

This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and seafarers' lives. The seafarers' labor market is changing rapidly and this study discusses the challenges encountered in recruitment practices, trade unions, and collective bargaining, as well as training, certification, and fraudulent certification. Wages, contracts, and tours of duty are also investigated, and the book includes in-depth treat...

This landmark book is the first to focus on contemporary women seafarers at a global level. It addresses a host of issues surrounding the working conditions and welfare of women, from both developed and developing countries, employed aboard the world's merchant and passenger ships. Drawing on extensive research commissioned by the ILO, the book considers women's participation levels in the industry, and examines policies concerning their recru...

Agriculture employs some one billion workers worldwide, is the largest sector for female employment in many countries, especially in Africa and Asia, and accounts for approximately seventy per cent of all child labor. Agriculture is also one of the most hazardous of all occupations, with many workers suffering accidents and ill health each year. The code of practice put forth in this book is intended to raise awareness of the hazards and risks...

Those who work on fishing vessels frequently put in long hours in harsh conditions and often face extraordinary and unpredictable hazards. The goal of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), was to ensure that these seafarers have decent conditions of work on board, including occupational safety and health protection, medical care, and social security. These guidelines are an important international resource for the implementation of t...

The International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in the fall of 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics of all relevant disciplines-industrial relations, socio...

Labour standards have long been upheld by the ILO as an essential pillar of development and peace at the national and international levels. Respect for fundamental rights at work is at the core of the ILO's decent work strategy. This important new book offers valuable insight on the content and application of the ILO's fundamental international labour standards and related standards. These fundamental standards-on freedom of association, colle...

In June 2011, the International Labor Office adopted Convention No. 189, calling for an assessment and strengthening of national labor laws that include equal protection for domestic workers. This guide is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labor laws, including government officials and representatives of workers' and employers' organizations. With Convention No. 189 as its underlying fra...

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) is a wide-ranging reference tool that offers the general user instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labor markets. Harvesting information from international data repositories as well as regional and national statistical sources, the KILM offers data for over two hundred countries from 1980 to the latest available year for each country. The eighteen key labor market indic...

Studies have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of ergonomic innovations for improving working and living conditions in rural and agricultural settings. This manual presents practical and concrete guidance on easy-to-implement ergonomic improvements, particularly in developing countries. The result of long-term collaboration between the ILO and the International Ergonomics Association, the book compiles one hundred illustrated examples of...

Workers around the world are still paying the price for policy failures that led to the 2008 financial crisis. The underlying structural problems that caused the crisis are still with us: a fragile and still largely underregulated financial system, depressed wages and widening income inequalities, and trade imbalances between debtor and surplus countries. This issue of the IJLR, mostly drawn from presentations at the 2010 Global Labour Univers...

The role of wages in the current financial crisis-as a cause as well as a solution-has yet to be fully understood. In this issue, contributors look at the policy roots of growing wage inequality, secular decline in the wage share of national income in recent decades, and how these developments are intertwined with the financial crisis. The essays critique mainstream economic analysis of labor markets and present alternative frameworks to bette...