Reflects on the values behind the ILO's Decent Work Agenda and provides a forum for contributors from various humanistic, philosophical, spiritual and religious traditions to express their views on the significance of work at all levels of society, from the individual person to the global...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on data collecting problems regarding the income generating activities and economic role of Hausa Islamic women in Katsina, Nigeria - finds homemaker tasks and family household production to have been ignored or submerged in historical and current censuses, due to...

Examines the employment situation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focusing on the effects of events in neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee movements, trade restrictions and increased external...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on woman worker labour force participation in Jordan - discusses occupational structure, analyses the impact of cultural factors, marital status, educational level, family size, husband's occupation, urbanization and rural migration, provides comparisons with...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious practice, presents folklore interpretations of female...

Compares conditions of academic tenure and its functional equivalent in post secondary education in selected Anglo-American countries and in countries governed by civil-service regimes. Draws conclusions regarding nomination and dismissal, the case of distant-study teaching, effects of brain...