Building on earlier empirical work by the same author, the study describes changes over time in two villages in Central Mexico having differential access to household fuel supplies and to income-generating opportunities. While not disproving any links between fuel consumption and nutrition,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the eradication of child labour and the evolution of youth policy in the USSR - comments on labour legislation concerning the minimum age and employment conditions of young workers, and covers the institution of compulsory education, the social integration of...

Based on data from 109 agreements, mainly in the engineering industry, discusses the trend to arrange flexible working schedules at plant level and the potential impact of these agreements on employment security and job creation.

In principle, two different types of working-time instruments were used to introduce working-time changes during the crisis. First, work-sharing schemes (with their country-specific institutional background and public subsidies); second, working-time adjustments based on unilateral or bilateral...

Provides guidance on ways and means to minimise the negative effects of working with visual display units. Includes selected examples of regulations, guidelines and collective agreements governing their use.