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...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the social structure and labour market in the agricultural sector in Turkey - discusses the historical background of peasant farmer landowner system, impact of agricultural mechanization (tractorisation), incidence of landlordism in sharecropping and capitalist...

Discusses the adequacy of contemporary HRM practices in light of the changes brought about by globalization and a hyper-competitive global market. Briefly traces the historical development of personnel management and HRM, considers the forces driving change and then look at contemporary...

ILO pub. Working paper on the effects of multinational enterprise on employment in Brazil - provides historical background to foreign investment in Brazil, and studies the role of multinational enterprise in industrial structure and industrialization, productivity, capital intensiveness, wages,...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on agrarian reform and rural migration in Chile - provides an historical overview of trends from 1865 to 1970, and examines commercialization of agriculture and its implications for migration in the long term, land settlement, agricultural worker...

Reviews trends in global inequality (between countries and within countries) during the 1980s and 1990s and analyses changes in income concentration during the first wave of globalization, 1870-1912. Finds evidence which indicates that global inequality has risen during the past two decades and...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the historical development of the capital goods machinery industry in China - covers the period from 1930s to 1950s describing development from repair shops and maintenance in foreign owned shops to machinery manufacturing using intermediate technology;...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a case study of the economic implications and social implications of the internal migration of seasonal workers (agricultural workers) from the Ludewa District, a labour reserve in South-Western Tanzania - discusses agrarian structures, the history of...

Provides an historically based analysis of Afghanistan's current socio-economic situation and the implications of this for reconstruction and employment creation.