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Chapters: Juan Somavía, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Paulo Renato Souza, John Langmore, Marc Belanger, David A. Morse, Andrea Rossi, Richard Horsey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Juan Somavía (born April 21, 1941) is the current Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). He was elected to serve as the ninth Director-General of the ILO by the Governing Body on 23 March 1998. His five-year term of office began on 4 March 1999, when he became the first representative from the Southern hemisphere to head the organization. In March 2003, Mr. Somavia was re-elected for a second five-year term. Since taking office in 1999, Mr. Somavía has taken up the challenge that the rapidly changing economy presents to the ILO. In 1999, he submitted his Decent Work Agenda to the International Labour Conference, which was subsequently endorsed by the Governing Body and the Conference. The work of the Office has been reorganized around four strategic objectives that make it possible to establish targets and indicators to measure progress and provide the basis of accountability: employment creation , rights at work , social protection and social dialogue. An attorney by profession, Mr. Somavía has had a long and distinguished career in civil and international affairs. His wide experience in all areas of public life - as a diplomat and academic - and his involvement in social development, business and civil organizations have all helped shape his vision of the need to secure decent work for women and men throughout the world. The following is a list of the many positions he held in the United Nations and other inter-governmental organizations before joining the ILO: Somavía began his career as an academic. From 1967-68, he was lecturer on economic ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5268497 ... Read more

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Chapters: United Nations Global Compact, Decent work, International Standard Classification of Occupations, Labour Force Survey, Time-bound programmes for the eradication of the worst forms of child labour, International labour standards, David A. Morse, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, Ohlin Report, Declaration of Philadelphia, International Programme on Chemical Safety, International Labour Conference,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat - the people who are employed by it throughout the world - is known as the International Labour Office. The organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969. E. H. Greenwood, US Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D.C., October-November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building. The ILO was established as an agency of the League of Nations following the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. VanDaele, (2005) argues that in 1919 a pioneering generation of scholars, social policy experts, and politicians designed an unprecedented international organizational framework for labour politics. The founding fathers of the ILO had made great strides in social thought and action before 1919. The core members all knew one another from earlier private professional and ideological networks, in which they exchanged knowledge, experiences, and ideas on social policy. Prewar 'epistemic communities,' such as the International Association for Labour Legislation (IALL), founded in 1900, and political networks, such as the So...http://booksllc.net/?id=14987 ... Read more

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Chapters: Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 436. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 is an International Labour Organization Convention within the United Nations that was established in 1957. Its primary focus is to recognize and protect the cultural, religious, civil and social rights of indigenous and tribal populations within an independent country, and provide a standard framework for addressing the economic issues that many of these groups face. Today this Convention, C107, is considered outdated in the protection of indigenous rights, namely by the ILO organization itself. In 1989, the Convention 169 was written with the purpose of revising it. It has been ratified by twenty countries, with some among those who denounced the previous convention, 107. In the body of the more recent convention, we can read, " Considering that the developments which have taken place in international law since 1957, as well as developments in the situation of indigenous and tribal peoples in all regions of the world, have made it appropriate to adopt new international standards on the subject with a view to removing the assimilationist orientation of the earlier standards ". A San man from Namibia. Fewer than 10,000 San live in the traditional way, as hunter-gatherers. Since the mid-1990s the central government of Botswana has been trying to move the San out of their lands. Botswana is not a signatory to the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention.Selected excerpts of the preamble of the declaration stating: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the protection and integration of indigenous and other tribal and semi-tribal populations in independent countries,...C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4324011 ... Read more

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Title: Labour as an International Problem : a Series of Essays Comprising a Short History of the International Labour Organization and a Review of General Industrial ProblemsPublisher: London : MacMillanPublication date: 1920Subjects: International Labour OrganisationInternational Labour OfficeInternational Labour Conference 1920 : Geneva : Genoa, Italy)International Labour Conference 1919 : Washington, D.C.)Labor laws and legislationNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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International Labour Organization. League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Unfree labour, Centre William Rappard, Labour movement, Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 10836 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents easy-to-understand information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders. ... Read more

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Chapters: Geneva Conventions, International Labour Organization Conventions, Fourth Geneva Convention, Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957, Third Geneva Convention, List of Parties to the Geneva Conventions, First Geneva Convention, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, Minimum Age Convention, 1973, Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1970, Protocol Iii, Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957, Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, Underground Work Convention, 1935, Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Convention, 1983, White Lead Convention, 1921, Foreign Relations Series, Unemployment Convention, 1919, Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1949, Hours of Work Convention, 1919, Second Geneva Convention, Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 2003, Treaty Series, Rural Workers' Organisations Convention, 1975, Geneva Conventions Controversy, Night Work Convention, 1990, Civilian Internee, Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation, Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967, Prevention of Accidents Convention, 1970, Work in Fishing Convention 2007, Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935, Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997, Minimum Age Convention, 1959, Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970, Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974, Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995, Minimum Age Convention, 1937, Protection Against Accidents Convention, 1932, Hours of Work and Rest Periods Convention, 1979, Maternity Protection Convention, 2000, Minimum Age Convention, 1919, Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1979, Workmen's Compensation Convention, 1934, Command Paper, Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field, Minimum Age Convention, 1932, Safety and Health in Agric...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23443846 ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of international labor migration and the ILO's efforts to protect migrant workers through a rights-based approach. It offers new insights on the factors that motivate people to seek work outside their country of origin and on the significant development effects on both origin and destination countries.

Exposing the often-limited access of migrant workers to their fundamental rights at work, the book describes in detail the international norms that have evolved to protect migrant workers and ensure decent work for all. It reflects on existing and potential international governance structures, addressing the linkages between migration and development, and reviews the role of the ILO's Multilateral Framework on Labor Migration in improving policymaking and international cooperation in the area of labor migration.

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This valuable, wide-ranging reference tool meets theever-increasing demand for timely, accurate, and accessibleinformation on the rapidly changing world of work. Key Indicators ofthe Labour Market 1999 (KILM) provides the general reader as well asthe expert with concise explanations and analysis of the data on theworld's labor markets, including global and regional estimates.

Harvesting vast information from international data repositories aswell as regional and national statistical sources, this importantreference offers data on a broad range of countries for the years 1980and 1990, and all available subsequent years. The volume employs anexpanded, up-to-date range of 18 key labor market indicators allowingresearchers to compare and contrast among countries and within regionsacross time. Using statistical data on the labor force, employment,unemployment, underemployment, educational attainment of theworkforce, wages and compensation, productivity and labor costs, andpoverty and income distribution as market indicators, the volumeenables readers to access the most current information available.KILM is available in two formats--standard print version andCD-ROM. The CD-ROM's interactive design allows users to customize asearch by any combination of labor market indicator, country, year,and data inputs. Its easy-to-use format makes searching for relevantinformation quick and simple.

The CD-ROM version is accompanied by the KILM Country Profiles, 1999edition, a quick reference for users. ... Read more