UID:
almafu_9960800602102883
Format:
1 online resource (92 pages)
ISBN:
92-2-032391-5
Content:
With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the need to secure the safety and health of workers, this book shows how the ILO has successfully developed and applied International Labour Standards and policy responses to mitigate the effects of employment and social crises over the last century.
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The ILO, war and crisis -- The Great Depression and public works -- International economic cooperation -- Keynesian policies of the ILO -- Industrial relations and economic planning -- Tripartite cooperation -- War, Reconstruction and Growth -- Philadelphia -- The emergence of human rights -- Building up the toolbox in turbulent times -- Full, freely chosen and productive employment -- Ideology and labor standards -- Decolonisation and development -- The Nobel Prize -- A world of growing contradictions -- World Employment Conference -- Fragmentation of the consensus -- Employment and structural adjustment -- From adjustment to transition -- Transition without crisis awareness -- The child labour effect -- Emergencies and standards -- Protecting health care workers -- HIV and AIDS in the world of work -- SARS and other diseases -- Return of a global crisis -- The new dimensions -- The informal economy -- Crisis response as part of the Decent Work agenda -- The role of the private sector -- Moving forward -- Vulnerable groups -- A centralized national response -- Making a diagnosis -- The reconstruction agenda -- The problem with peer reviews -- Reviving the social dialogue -- Restoring the balance -- Annexes -- References -- List of abbreviations.
Language:
English
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