Reviews and reflects on recent publications on the relationship between industrialization and child labour in the western world from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper studying the feasibility of implementing employment policy and migration policy for short term employment of Mexican migrant workers in the USA - gives historical background information, compares previous experiences with those in Western Europe, covers labour...

ILO pub. Article reviewing supreme court jurisprudence on reverse racial discrimination in relation to employment opportunity and educational opportunity affirmative action programmes in the USA - comments on historical decisions and on passage of related civil rights legislation and labour...