The paper deals with the importance of trade unions in former times and at the present time. The author compares the living conditions of working people, the forms and conditions of labor markets and the state of enterprises in the second half of the 19th century as essential causes of the trade...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a case study illustrating the working conditions of migrant worker miners in gold mines of South Africa r - analyses and comments on restrictions on black labour mobility and trade union rights, discriminatory labour legislation, views of wiehahn and...

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

Based on a case study from informal markets of the city of Maputo, in Monzabique, and the Associação dos Operadores e Trabalhadores do Sector Informal (ASOTSI), analyses the impact of the role of informal union organizations in the living and working conditions of the informal workers...

Based on interviews with 1463 working mothers from seven sectors: garment workers, carpet weavers, pashmina weavers, agricultural workers, tea plantation workers, beedi workers and domestic workers. Examines the socio- economic background of the women and their families, working conditions,...

Working paper of the manpower needs generated by labour intensive fruit and vegetable agricultural production for export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of Morocco. Analyses the impact of economic development on the...

Examines the performance of the cut-flower industry and its impact on national economic development and local communities. Based on field survey covering 12 flower farms in northern Tanzania.