The European Commission and the International Labour Organization have combined efforts in reaction to the deep crisis that hit the global economy in 2008. The aim of this joint project is to examine policies that will lead not only to a quicker recovery but also to a more sustainable,...

A key message of the 2011 Global Labour Column anthology is that we need a plurality of ideas in order to develop and ultimately choose between different policy options. This volume will be of great interest to academic scholars as well as trade union activists and policy-makers.

In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an...

Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS, VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I OVERVIEW -- Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN -- OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY -- POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- Framing the...

Youth Employment and Training Programs the YEDPA Years -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations -- THE NATURE OF THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM -- LIMITATIONS OF THIS REVIEW -- FINDINGS AND CO CONCLUSIONS ON PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION -- National Office...

This book explores the question of whether labour law has a positive role to play in promoting economic development, bringing fresh perspectives to a debate that has raged for many years. It includes chapters from leading scholars in the field and presents views and experiences from Latin...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Objectives -- Methodology -- Structure and Themes of Report -- Stakeholder Consultations -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Background to the Somaliland Private Sector -- The Setting -- The Size and...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Revisiting Internal Labor Markets -- 2 Labor Migration and the Potential for Industrial Renewal -- 3 Toward a Third Industrial Divide? -- 4 A Second Regulatory Divide? Labor Inspection Regimes in Comparative Historical Perspective -- 5 Rethinking the...

Intro -- KANSAS IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Storm Clouds Gather, 1929-1932 -- 2 Kansas Republicans Welcome New Deal Funding -- 3 Unemployment, Riots, and the Emergency Work Relief Program --...

Analysis of Key Practices for the Development of the Russian Far East's Labor Resources -- Trends in Development of the Far Eastern Federal District's Workforce -- Priorities to Increase the Workforce in the Russian Far East -- Key Elements of the Strategy of Workforce Development in the Far...