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Trade Union Functions and Services: An instructional aid for worker students This guide, aimed at trade union educators, is about the teaching of collective bargaining. From the methods and...

Accident prevention. A workers' education manual. 2nd (revised) edition Workers are becoming more and more aware of the role that they, and the management, can play in reducing the number of...

This is the second in a Series of five manuals produced by the Social Security Department of the ILO to provide the reader with information on all the major elements of social security, including the...

Alcohol and drugs. Programmes of assistance for workers (Conditions of work digest 1/87)Author: IloPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: 31917Number of Pages: 252 pagesBinding:...

Occupational Safety and Health Series No. 30 Contents: - Report of the Meeting of Experts on the safe use of asbestos, Geneva, 11-18 December 1973 - Health hazards of asbestos by the Office of the...

World Employment Programme Background papers for training in population, human resources and development planning. Paper No. 6. The main objective of the Programme is to help Member States...

This guide provides an overview of the approaches and strategies to improve job opportunities for disabled jobseekers. It is intended for vocational guidance and placement personnel in mainstream and...

Prevention of accidents and occupational diseases requires an exact knowledge of the sequence of causes, for only then can the necessary preventive measures be correctly chosen and fully applied...

The importance for a proper, adequate and balanced diet both in the context of general health and in relation to work would hardly need emphasis. Good nutrition not only contributes to improved...

Management Development Series No. 17 "The ILO has ... produced a manual on the case method with a view to helping managements schools, teachers and trainers, as well as participants in management...

Child labour: Law practice (Conditions of work digest 1/91)Author: IloPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: 33500Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Political ScienceISBN-10:...

Sexual harassment is overwhelmingly a problem of women workers. It has nothing to do with normal interaction between the sexes: it denotes scorn of another person, and is used to establish or prove...

This valuable guide for policy-makers, an output of the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Equality for Women in Employment, highlights the advantages and importance of comparable worth for evaluating...

Author: IloPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: Nov 15, 1989Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9221023397ISBN-13: 9789221023395

This guide has been prepared with a view to helping developing countries in their effort to promote the orderly settlement of industrial disputes through conciliation. Its aim is to meet the needs...

Author: Robert HeronPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: Sep 26, 1998Number of Pages: 52 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9221112799ISBN-13: 9789221112792

All across Eastern Europe, health services plunged into crisis in the 1990s. Steep cuts in budgets, training and investment and, in some cases, official disinterest, created a pervasive system...

Change is a permanent feature of market economies. What is new in today's world is the pace, breadth and depth of economic change and the industrial restructuring that this entails. Over the past two...

An ILO Symposium on Collective Bargaining in Industrialized Market Economy Countries (Geneva, 2-6 November 1987) Industrial relations in industrialized market economies are currently evolving in a...

Author: IloPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: Feb 06, 2002Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9221123545ISBN-13: 9789221123545

Derecho de la formacion profesional en UruguayAuthor: Hugo Barretto GhionePublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: 37622Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Political ScienceISBN-10:...

Author: Mario Garmendia ArigonPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: Jan 01, 2003Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9290881550ISBN-13: 9789290881551

One of the most remarkable structural changes which took place in the world economy in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s is undoubtedly the growth of export processing zones (EPZs) in the...

Women, Work and Development Series The majority of women around the world work long hours and contribute significantly to production and to family income, although this fact is not generally...

The main aim of the present volume is to assess the responsibility of educational authorities in the employment problem of less developed countries. Are there reasons to think that the quantity and...

Judged by the standards of the developing countries, the South Asian countries achieved fairly decent rates of economic growth over the pst two decades. Yet the employment problem remains serious...

The Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion (ARTEP) is responsible for implementing the ILO's World Employment Programme in the Asian region. Its main objectives are to identify the factors...

The Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion (ARTEP) is responsible for implementing the ILO's World Employment Programme in the Asian region. Its main objectives are to identify the factors...

Entrepreneurship Development for Women: A Manual for TrainersAuthor: ILO-SaatPublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: 35400Number of Pages: 364 pagesBinding: Business &...

Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour OfficePublication Date: May 01, 2003Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9221137538ISBN-13: 9789221137535