ILO pub. Article describing the new (1976) system of apprenticeship and in plant training in the engineering industry, aimed at preparing workers for rapid scientific and technological change in Czechoslovakia - discusses overspecialization and theoretical inadequacies of the old system,...

ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on technological change and employment creation, comprising a case study of a foreign subsidiary and a local firm in India - discusses theoretical issues, size of enterprise, research and development, innovations, backward and...

Based on a selection of economic, social and political variables, develops a typology of developing countries which can be used to study the impact of new technologies on them as well as to assess their capability to absorb new technologies.

ILO pub. Article on microelectronics training needs in the metalworking industry - considers the difficulties of vocational training machinery in most countries following rapid technological changes accompanied by new skill requirements, and the implications for employment adjustment, and...

ILO pub. Article on agrarian structure, agricultural mechanization and agricultural employment in the context of agricultural development in Chile from 1955 to 1965 - reviews structural and technological changes that occurred, assesses their impact on productivity and employment in various...

ILO pub. Article on employment of disabled workers - presents a definition of disability, identifies criteria for suitable employment (meaningful income, productive occupational status, normal human relations and continuous pattern of responsibility and discipline), examines unemployment,...

ILO pub. Article presenting a basic needs approach to problems of unequal access concerning rural area production factors, public services and technological change in Bangladesh - shows how low incomes and limited access to agricultural credit, chemical fertilizers and rural institutions,...

ILO pub. Article comprising a case study of relationships between internal migration (esp. Rural migration), technological change and agricultural production in India - concludes from a local level survey undertaken in the Punjab region in 1977 that rural migration and return migration improve...

ILO pub. Article on improvement of working conditions in small scale industry in developing countries - considers sources and potential for improvement of existing problems with respect to financial aspects, technological change, work environment, training and management consultancy, etc....