ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on agricultural employment in Latin America - covers rural population trends, rural migration, occupational structure, farm size, landlessness, wage rates, unemployment, wages, incl. Family workers, labour contracts, household income, and rural area poverty....

Analyses the factors which have contributed to the perpetuation of the bonded labour system in Nepal and suggests changes in policies and programmes to deal more effectively with the problem. Includes comments on the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour...

Based on a survey of 13 micro and small enterprises in both the formal and informal sectors in three urban areas of Kenya. Describes the key characteristics of these enterprises, investigates conditions of employment and labour practices and examines the role of the Bakery, Confectionery,...

Working paper on legal aspects of African migrant worker labour supply from Lesotho to the mining industry in South Africa R. Covers historical trends in migration policy before and since independence, recruitment policy in relation to migrants, discrimination patterns, etc., and comments on...

Includes texts of "Charter of Rights for Migrant Workers in Southern Africa", "Charter of Rights for Migrant Workers" (South African Catholic Bishops Conference) and "National Union of Mineworkers Miners' Bill of Rights".

ILO pub. Working paper on working conditions of Pakistani migrant workers in the Middle East, with particular reference to their situation in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - examines the findings of a survey carried out from 1976 to 1983 and covering grievances with regard to breach...

Explores the changing status of actors within an increasingly internationalized film and television industry. Discusses the implications of these changes for the activities of performers' trade unions and associations, focusing on job searching and the casting process, contracting practices and...

Based on the Philippines Labour Flexibility Survey carried out in late 1990, covers 1,311 industrial establishments during the period from 1988 to 1990. Examines the forms and levels of external labour flexibility practices in the country.

Describes different forms of labour flexibility and examines legislative reforms and measures related to flexibility in external and internal labour markets and occupational and individual flexibility. Investigates trends in flexible forms of employment across countries during the 1990s and...

Covers the period from 1975 to 1990 and gives projections to the year 2000. Focuses on two segments of the footwear industry: the production of women's leather footwear and sports footwear. The study is supplemented by an interview survey conducted in eight of the largest export firms.