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China: Migrant Workers Want ‘Decent Work’
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2009 China now has a second generation of rural-to-urban migrant workers. An estimated eighty percent of these workers were born in the 1980s or after. Many of these young workers are unwilling to follow their parents in acquiescing to dirty, exhausting ...
Kate Hannan
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Social Sciences, 2023 Decent Work is considered essential to the facilitation of a transition to greener, fairer, more prosperous, and more just societies. Decent Work represents a fundamental component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a crucial facet of ...
Agnieszka Dziewulska, Colin W. P. Lewis
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Decent Work, Standards and Indicators [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Recently, there has been an effort to construct more qualitative indicators to measure international labour standards. These indicators include grading by experts, coding of legislation and other textual sources. This paper uses normative indicators to construct country profiles that help to map progress towards decent work.
Zarka-Martres, Monique +1 more
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For a psychosocial approach to decent work
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The notion of decent work was developed by the International Labour Organization twenty years ago. The notion is now well known by lawyers, economists, and sociologists, and even if it appears difficult to define it clearly, it constitutes a useful ...
Jacques ePOUYAUD
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Empirical Research on Decent Work: A Literature Review
Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2019 Decent work is the sum of people’s aspirations in their working lives. This article aims to report the results of a systematically conducted literature review of empirical research concerning decent work.
Susana Pereira +2 more
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The Future and Praxis of Decent Work
Global Labour Journal, 2015 The two contributions to this Global Issues piece are based on keynote addresses to the ‘Future and Praxis of Decent Work’ Conference held at the University of Kassel, Germany, on 14 February 2013.
David Spooner, Peter Waterman
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Domestic Work: Challenges for Decent Work
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2009 This article presents an overview of the situation of the domestic workers and focuses on some issues related to its dimension in the world and in Brazil, to their conditions of work and its importance to the labor market and to the households.
Solange Sanches
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Decent Work in a Changing Climate
Anti-Trafficking ReviewClimate change is placing increased pressures on workers, including their health, working conditions, and economic outcomes. Whilst efforts by international governance mechanisms and governments espouse the need to achieve decent work, in reality, the ...
Bethany Jackson +2 more
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The Paradoxes of Decent Work in Context: A Cultural Political Economy Perspective
Global Labour Journal, 2015 Scientific discourses of decent work can be roughly grouped into two main lines of interpretation. The first, optimistic line sees the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) decent work agenda as indicative of counter-hegemonic forces successfully ...
Felix Hauf
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JUVENTUDE E TRABALHO DECENTE NO BRASIL - uma proposta de mensuração
Caderno CRHEm 1999, a OIT propôs o conceito de trabalho decente (TD) para definir uma agenda de discussão e promoção de políticas públicas para o trabalho, enfatizando grupos sociais vulneráveis, em especial os jovens.
Felícia Silva Picanço
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