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Decent Work in America: The 2005 Work Environment Index [PDF]
What are the factors that make for a decent work environment and how do the conditions of work vary in different parts of the United States? To address these and similarly important questions in a clear and accessible way, we have developed a new ...
James Heintz+2 more
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ACHIEVING "DECENT WORK" IN SOUTH AFRICA?
The fundamental goal of the International Labour Organisation is the achievement of decent and productive work for both women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. The South African government has pledged its commitment to
Tamara Cohen, Luendree Moodley
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Decent work: Concept and indicators [PDF]
The concept of “decent work” was launched in these terms in 1999, in the Report of the Director-General to the International Labour Conference meeting in its 87th Session. The idea both conveys the broad and varied dimensions associated with work today and encapsulates them in an expression that everyone can appreciate.
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This study develops the issue of Decent work in Bulgaria focusing on employment conditions e.g. employment contracts, working time, wages, health and safety at work place, access to training, conciliation of work and family, as well as some specific ...
Beleva, Iskra, Tzanov, Vasil
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How Work Can Damage Your Health : The Case for 'Decent' Work [PDF]
The way we value, structure, manage and reward work impacts on individuals doing that work and on society more widely. This policy brief explores a growing body of evidence that, across the UK, today’s labour market is failing too many workers in ...
Trebeck, Katherine
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Employment and decent work in the era of flexicurity [PDF]
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the dynamism of employment is always contradictory to the enforcement of some forms of security for workers. Contemporary theorizing now recognizes the specificity of the wage-labour nexus. Consequently,
Robert Boyer
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Decent Work and Women's Economic Empowerment: Good Policy and Practice [PDF]
Women constitute half of humankind and 40% of the global workforce. They are a growing proportion of the overseas migrant labour force. As workers, entrepreneurs and service providers they contribute actively to social and economic development.Yet women ...
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Beyond Aspiration: Young People And Decent Work In The De-Industrialised City [PDF]
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Cumbers, Andrew+2 more
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Coffee plays a big role in Kenya, it contributes to 30 percent of agricultural jobs and country’s exports. However, casual workers within coffee estates still get challenging employment conditions including long working hours, unfair wages, limited ...
Joseph Munyentwari Mbuta+2 more
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Decent Work and the Informal Economy [PDF]
employment, governance, ILO, indicators, informal sector, representation, rights, social ...
Trebilcock, Anne
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