Publications on Social and Solidarity Economy

July 2021

  1. ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No. 18, June 2021

    01 July 2021

    Every month, the ILO COOP/SSE eNewsletter highlights recent news and developments on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy and partners.

June 2021

  1. Platform labour in search of value: A study of workers’ organizing practices and business models in the digital economy

    30 June 2021

    This report seeks to capture the new strategies being deployed by self-employed workers to reclaim their rights to decent work and a fair share of economic gains in the value networks of the emerging platform economy. Specifically, it focuses on the experiences of workers in on-demand work, crowdsourcing and e-commerce sectors.

  2. World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021

    02 June 2021

    In 2020, an estimated 8.8 per cent of total working hours were lost – the equivalent of the hours worked in one year by 255 million full-time workers. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world of work.

  3. World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021

    02 June 2021

    In 2020, an estimated 8.8 per cent of total working hours were lost – the equivalent of the hours worked in one year by 255 million full-time workers. This summary indicator captures the various channels through which the pandemic has affected labour markets.

  4. ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No. 17, May 2021

    01 June 2021

    Every month, the ILO COOP/SSE eNewsletter highlights recent news and developments on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy and partners.

May 2021

  1. Cooperation among Cooperatives in Action between Japan and Africa - 10 Years of ILO/JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour

    31 May 2021

    This retrospective booklet tells the story of a decade of collaboration between the Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the ILO/JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour Programme. Compared to other study tours, the ILO/JCCU study tour is unique both for its duration of ten days, and its continuity for ten years. This booklet reflects on the experiences of those who participated in the study tours across the past decade and includes messages from ILO/JCCU/JCA staff and highlights from roundtable discussions. In addition, it includes information on the ILO’s work on cooperative development, international and Japanese cooperative movements and the contributions of cooperatives toward achieving the SDGs.

April 2021

  1. ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No. 16, April 2021

    30 April 2021

    Every month, the ILO COOP/SSE eNewsletter highlights recent news and developments on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy and partners.

  2. ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No. 15, March, 2021

    01 April 2021

    Every month, the ILO COOP/SSE eNewsletter highlights recent news and developments on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy and partners.

March 2021

  1. Migration from Venezuela: opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean

    10 March 2021

    The current Venezuelan migration crisis is the worst ever seen in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since 2015, more than 5.4 million Venezuelans have had to leave their country as a result of the economic, social and political crisis facing Venezuela. This figure, which does not include hundreds of thousands of returnees, makes it the second largest migration crisis in the modern world, after the Syrian crisis.

November 2020

  1. Statistics of Cooperatives: Concepts, classification, work and economic contribution measurements

    12 November 2020

    This book on statistics of cooperatives is a joint initiative of the International Labour Office (ILO), Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) and the International Centre of Research and Information on Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC). It brings together updated versions of four background studies produced for the ILO and COPAC in the process leading up to the adoption of the Guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in October 2018. Together with the guidelines, the book is intended to help statisticians to capture more information on key trends and challenges in the world of cooperatives. This publication is celebrated during the ILO COOP 100 Symposium.