This report gives a broad, though not exhaustive outline of the conditions of work of homeworkers in the TCF industries, highlighting their problems. It describes the role and importance of home work in these industries within the context of recent globalization trends and brings out the extreme...

Discusses changes in working time and examines ways in which statistical systems might be altered to facilitate measurement and monitoring of these changes. Focuses on the UK but includes examples from Germany, Italy and USA.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on the need for community local level data collecting in surveys of internal migration in developing countries - outlines reasons to use community variables and issues in model formulations, presents comparison of community definitions, and describes types of...

Examines initiatives to prevent and combat workplace sexual harassment at international level and in countries across the world. Reviews international standards and national legislation; the activities of government, employers and workers organizations, and NGOs; and workplace policies and...

The authors re-assess the informal sector in French-speaking Africa. They first look at the classical interpretations of how the informal sector is perceived in the context of development: as a result of international capitalism or as a correction to an unbalanced development. They situate the...

Analyses the role of information in gaining a better understanding of the labour and employment effects of foreign direct investment (FDI). Outlines features of voluntary corporate reporting and of national reporting requirements in Belgium, France, and the United States.

Defines contract teachers as volunteers, community teachers, para- teachers and similar who, in general, have lower qualifications and lower salaries than corresponding teachers with civil servant status, and who typically work in remote rural areas or in post-conflict regions, serve ethnic...