Analyzes the banana industry crisis and its labour related effects. Highlights the continuing importance of the banana industry to the region.

Focuses on three types of migration: inter-country migration as in the case of migration to Argentina and Venezuela; intra-country migration as illustrated by the case of Brazil during the 1960s; and interregional migration as seen in the case of Latin American migration to Japan.

Covers trends during the 1980s.

Analyses the framework and processes of labour relations and social partnership at the national level in Barbados and explores experiences of social dialogue in relation to improving productivity, technical and vocational education, occupational health and safety and in the tourism sector....

Reviews the impact of recession and structural adjustment in developing countries and the impact of recession in OECD countries, on women workers' employment between 1980 and 1993.

ILO pub. Working paper on the employment effects of multinational enterprises in export processing zones in the Caribbean, esp. Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica - covers exports of industrial products, foreign investment, ownership of export oriented industry, employment creation,...