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Droit du travail

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:29:43 PST

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SOLUCIONES PARA EL CUIDADO INFANTIL EN EL LUGAR DE TRABAJO

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:29:36 PST

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Decision Points. George W. Bush

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:28:51 PST

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Worldwide Movement Agaist Child Labour

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:28:11 PST

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Give Girls a Chance Tackling Child Labour, a Key to the Future

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:28:10 PST

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The report provides an analysis of the work of girls and boys in sixteen countrieslooking both at economic activities and unpaid household services.

Value Chain Development for Decent Work

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:28:08 PST

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Working Conditions Laws Report, 2010

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:28:07 PST

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Moving Towards Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:52 PST

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Action Against Child Labour 2008-2009

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:51 PST

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Global Child Labour Developments

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:49 PST

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La tiers-mondialisation de la planète

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:25 PST

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La Tiers-Mondialisation de la planète, c'est le laminage des classes moyennes et la polarisation riches-pauvres de l'ensemble des sociétés, les ramenant ...

Entreprise en restructuration

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:16 PST

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Employment Relationship

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:14 PST

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The issue of who is or is not in an employment relationship has become problematic in recent decades as a result of major changes in work organization as well as in the adequacy of legal regulation in adapting to such changes. In different parts of the world there is increasing difficulty in establishing whether or not an employment relationship exists in situations where the respective rights an ...

La seguridad y la salud en las minas de carbon subterraneas

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:13 PST

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La Securite Et La Sante Dans Les Mines De Charbon Souterraines

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:12 PST

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Building Rural Roads

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:10 PST

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Ilo Work Family

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:08 PST

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Ageing / Le Vieillissement Gerer la Diversite Et L'egalite Dans Le Monde Du Travail Kit de Formation / Envejecimiento Gestion de la Diversidad Y la Idgualdad en El Lugar de Trabajo Material Didctico

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:07 PST

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Serves as a training package for employers' organizations and enterprises to assistthem develop programmes and policies that create decent and productive ...

MERCADOS LABORALES Y LAS POLITICAS SOCIALES EN EUROPA

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:27:06 PST

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How to Buy Energy Efficient Goods and Services

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:52 PST

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How to Buy Bottleneck Items

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:51 PST

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How to buy electronic components and assemblies

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:50 PST

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How to Buy Consultancy Services

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:50 PST

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How to Buy Energy

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:45 PST

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Management principles and practice

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:44 PST

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How to Prevent Procurement Fraud

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:42 PST

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Gestión de la prevención de riesgos laborales en la pequeña y mediana empresa

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:21 PST

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Seguridad y salud en el trabajo de construcción

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:11 PST

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Social responsibility in labour relations

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:06 PST

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The book will be of great interest to academics and practitioners for its clear categorization of the issues which must be overcome when regulating employment ...

Climat, un débat dévoyé ?

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:02 PST

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The New Social Learning

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:59 PST

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Most business books on social media have focused exclusively on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one another social media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in all kinds of extraordinarily creative ways. "The N ...

PROMOCION DE EMPRESAS SOSTENIBLE

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:57 PST

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ILO List of Occupational Diseases, Revised 2010

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:39 PST

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Nourishing the Land, Nourishing the People

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:37 PST

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This is an indispensable book for development practitioners, NGOs, farmer associationsand students in rural economics and related subjects.

Informe mundial sobre salarios 2010/2011 / Global Wage Report 2010/2011

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:23 PST

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Rapport Mondial Sur Les Salaires 2010/11

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:19 PST

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Energize Your Training

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:14 PST

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Introduction In the past two decades, researchers have made a number of discoveries about how various environmental and related factors in the classroom ...

Capacitas

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:09 PST

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The focus of the book is on a foundational idea, the concept of capacitas, whichsignifies a status conferred upon citizens for the purpose of enabling them to ...

Plone 3 for Education

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:08 PST

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Deconstructing Development Discourse

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:06 PST

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Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous, or hotly contested, the language of develop ...

Macroeconomics Updated

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:25:04 PST

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Blanchard (who is the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund "IMF") presents a unified and global view of macroeconomics, enabling students to see the connections between the short-run, medium-run, and long-run. Technological problems and growth, financial markets and expectations, the goods market in an open economy, monetary policy, and fiscal policy. ...

Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:47 PST

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This book will be of interest to policy makers, students, academics, gender experts, and all those interested in gender issues and development.

Blunting Neo-Liberalism

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:46 PST

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Blunting Neoliberalism is one of the first books to examine the impact of tripartism across the developing world. Tripartism refers to the consultation and negotiation of public policies between government, business and labour. Although this mode of policy making has commanded much scholarly attention in advanced industrial countries, the literature on tripartism is scarce in the rest of the worl ...

La maternidad en el trabajo, Examen de la legislacion nacional / The maternity in the work, Examination of the national legislation

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:43 PST

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La Maternite Au Travail, Une Revue De La Legislation Nationale

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:42 PST

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Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:30 PST

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In many low- and middle-income countries, the global financial crisis has led to significant losses of jobs and pressures on real wages. Based on the findings of ILO-sponsored country studies of employment impacts, this book analyzes how crossborder trade has acted as a transmission channel, spreading the crisis to developing states. Key topics covered include how changes in trade flows affect t ...

Don't Waste the Crisis

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:26 PST

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Strengthening Migration Governance

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:24 PST

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World Social Security Report, 2010/11

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:23 PST

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Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:21 PST

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These guidelines have been prepared by the International Labour Office in order toassist employers and national organisations with practical advice on ...

Resilience of the cooperative business model in times of crisis

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:20 PST

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Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:19 PST

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An examination of the conflict between trade concerns and national governments' useof public procurement as a policy tool.

Global Wage Report

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:17 PST

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Global Evolution Of Industrial Relations

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:16 PST

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Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:07 PST

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This second edition introduces new ILO instruments promoting OSH and new chemical safety information tools, and addresses OSH in the context of globalisation ...

GUIA LABORAL DEL MINISTERIO DE TRABAJO E INMIGRACION 2010

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:06 PST

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Diversity at Work

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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What effects do racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination have on the functioning of organizations? Is there a way of managing organizations such that we can benefit both the members of traditionally disadvantaged groups and the organizations in which they work? Discrimination on the basis of race or gender, whether implicit or explicit, is still commonplace in many organizations. Organiza ...

Benefit-Cost Analysis

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit-cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the accuracy of the analysis, and facilitates sensitivity, risk and alternative scenario assess ...

Cambiamenti climatici

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Extending Social Security to All

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Maternity at Work

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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It is based on the new ILO Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws onMaternity Protection, which covers 167 countries.

Business Model Generation

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" pract ...

World of Work

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Networks, Crowds, and Markets

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These ar ...

Social Media for Trainers

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:01 PST

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A how-to resource for incorporating social media into training Whether you work in a traditional or virtual classroom, social media can broaden your reach and increase the impact of training. In Social Media for Trainers, e-learning and new media expert Jane Bozarth provides an overview of popular tools, including blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, and others. You'll l ...

Project Management

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:24:00 PST

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This Tenth Edition features: New sections on scope changes, exiting a project, collective belief, and managing virtual teams More than twenty-five case studies, ...

Dictionnaire d'économie et de sciences sociales

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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Human Rights Law and Business

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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Cooperating Out of Poverty

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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World Migration Report 2010 - The Future of Migration

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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Migration is a constant and dynamic phenomenon increasingly requiring diversified policy intervention in order to maximize its potential benefits and minimize related costs for both countries of origin and destination as well as migrants themselves. Better knowledge and enhanced capacities in different policy areas are essential to ensure the protection of migrants, the facilitation of legal migr ...

International Migration Outlook 2010

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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This annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries. It looks at the contribution of immigration to changes in the working-age population in the past decade, and the role of migration inflows at projected levels in driving growth of the working-age population in the next decade. It presents information on international students, including a ...

Sickness, Disability and Work

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining: Why is it that the average health status is improving, yet large numbers of people of working ...

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:30 PST

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In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for to ...

International Handbook of Public Procurement

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:29 PST

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Despite the US government spending about 15 to 20 percent of the GDP on contracts, public procurement remains an underdeveloped area of research. Focusing on the managerial, economic, political, and legal aspects, the "International Handbook of Public Procurement" presents a conceptual framework along with illustrative case studies to describe each phase of the public procurement process in detai ...

Democratizing Innovation

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users -- both individuals and firms -- often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel ...

Research Methodology

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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As with the first, the Second Edition of Research Methodology is designed specifically for students with no previous experience or knowledge of research and research methodology. New to this edition: - the paradigms of research have been expanded to present a way of thinking that helps students gain a clear idea of the different examples used in research; - material on focus groups, developm ...

Beyond E-Learning

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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A follow-up to his best-selling E-Learning, Beyond E-Learningexplains the most current thinking on how organizations learn and apply what they know to be successful, and explores the increasingly important role that technology plays, not as an end in itself but as a vital means to get there. The book also provides a clear path for helping to integrate learning including e-learning knowledge manag ...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and go ...

Non-Discrimination and Equality in the View of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures -- joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A gro ...

Living and Learning with New Media

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings -- at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Ou ...

Measuring Innovation A New Perspective

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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Flexible working time arrangements and gender equality

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:01 PST

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Microeconomics

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:00 PST

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For undergraduate and graduate economics majors who are enrolled in an Intermediate Microeconomics course. A book that provides a treatment of microeconomic theory that stresses the relevance and application to managerial and public policy decision making.

The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:00 PST

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Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, with the exception of the occasional reference to competitive labor markets like that of the ...

Development Macroeconomics 3rd Edition

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:40:00 PST

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Issues in the analysis of global value chains and their impact on employment and incomes in India

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:37:18 PST

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The sectors looked into are labour-intensive manufactures (garments and leatherproducts), technology-intensive manufactures (automobile components), and ...

Employment creation programmes

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:37:16 PST

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Reviews the experience of rural employent creation programmes with a focus on aspectssuch as issues relating to the design, funding and implementation of the ...

Labour administration

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:37:14 PST

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Who Governs the Globe?

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:37:11 PST

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The first major study of 'global governors': the authorities who exercise poweracross borders for purposes of affecting policy.

Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Africa

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:37:05 PST

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Agricultural workers and their contribution to sustainable agriculture and rural development

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:56 PST

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Examines the contribution of agricultural workers and their trade unions to making food production and food security sustainable.

Une éthique du commerce mondial

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:54 PST

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Un ouvrage consacré à l'éthique du commerce mondial ne pourrait paraître à unmoment plus opportun.

La responsabilité des entreprises multinationales en matière de droits de

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:51 PST

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Journée d’étude du Centre de recherche sur les droits de l’homme et le droithumanitaire (CRDH) et du Pôle international et européen de l’Université ...

Le droit du travail

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:47 PST

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Détenir les clés d'intelligibilité du droit du travail est aussi importantd'un point de vue pratique, pour qui est engagé dans la vie professionnelle, que ...

Les principes généraux selon le tribunal administratif de l'OIT

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:45 PST

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The changing law of the employment relationship

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:43 PST

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This in turn has strained labour law systems across industrialized countries that were previously based on the notion of dependent and subordinate employment to ...

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:36:39 PST

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Drawing on Prahalad's breakthrough insights in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, great companies worldwide have sought to identify, build, and profit from new markets amongst the world's several billion poorest people, while at the same time helping to alleviate poverty. Five years after its first publication, this book's ideas are no longer "theory": they are proven, profitable reality. ...

Accelerating Action Against Child Labour

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:32:35 PST

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Global report under the follow-up to the ILO declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work 2010.

Building competitiveness in Africa's agriculture

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:32:32 PST

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Using these examples, the 'Guide' presents a range of concepts, analytical tools, and methodologies centered on the value chain that can be used to design, ...