This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global...

1 Tindara Addabbo, Olga Rymkevich - Introduction -- Section 1: The evolving notion of autonomy and its consequences on social protection: A Theoretical Frame -- 1. Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri - Autonomy in and beyond the Employment Relationship: an Organizational Perspective -- 2. Manos...

1. Why and How to Study Trade Union Cooperation in Europe? -- 2. Patterns of transnational trade union cooperation in Europe -- 3. The European Trade Union Movement and the Issue of Statutory Minimum Wages -- 4. Revision of the EU Posting of Workers Directive, Social Dumping and Trade Unions’...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...

Section 1: Incarceration—Convicts, unfree labour and colonial capitalism -- Chapter 1: Unfree labour, Dissent, Convict-transportation and the building of colonial capital -- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods -- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?...

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis. In addition to case studies of employee voice in the workplace, it also looks at emerging forms of voice associated with the use of technology such as social media. Because of the breadth...

1. Work and Labour: Meanings and Concepts -- 2. Population, Urbanization and Working People -- 3. Technology, Markets, Specializations and Organization of Production -- 4. Labour Relations -- 5. Labour Conditions -- 5. Work and the Little Divergence

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit. In today’s world, the link between mobility and security issues is ever-increasing....