Covers the period from 1980s to end of 1990s.

ILO pub. Article on economic implications of child labour in developing countries - develops a typology of child employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and reproductive activities, reviews different kinds of...

South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 engendered expectations of rapid changes in racial and gender disparities in wages. Twenty years after the transition there are strong disagreements about whether there have been gains and how these have been distributed. In particular there are...

Analyses restructuring and the role of social dialogue in Brazil's chemical industry in the 2000s.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a draft chapter from an anticipated guide to survey data collecting on internal migration, labour mobility and employment (esp. In developing countries - develops a questionnaire to determine basic household activities (wages and unpaid work,...

Describes the data collecting methodology for statistics on employment, unemployment, hours of work and wages used in 68 countries and which are subsequently published by the ILO in the Bulletin of Labour Statistics, and Year Book of Labour Statistics.

Focuses on the role of collective bargaining in strengthening vocational training in the 1990s in the context of globalization.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting a theoretical framework for an employment status approach to data collecting on labour force - discusses the definition of exploitation, underemployment, division of labour, occupation, skill, labour force, etc.; proposes a taxonomy of labour status...