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We have selected for you the following books and articles
of general interest to ILO staff.
They are available in the ILO Library. A new list is prepared every two weeks.
- 2007 WTO public forum : "How can the WTO help harness globalisation?" : 04-05 October 07 / World Trade Organization.
Geneva : WTO, 2008. xiv, 365 p. + 1 CD ROM
Focuses on challenges presented by globalization, with particular reference to the need for a coherent multilateral trading system, trade as a vehicle for growth and development, and the interaction of trade and sustainable development. Contains a CD-ROM with the proceedings, a photogallery, an e-forum where civil society and others can give views, and the audio recordings of the presentations. The latter includes talks given by ILO delegates: Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (Session 24, "The role of social standards in promoting fair trade", p. 62-64) and Rolph van der Hoeven (Session 35, "How can globalization work for workers?", p. 79-81).
Call number 108B08/1 engl
- Beyond the workfare state : labour markets, equality and human rights / edited by Mick Carpenter, Belinda Freda and Stuart Speeden.
Bristol : The Policy Press, 2007. viii, 192 p.
Explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and "welfare-to-work" policies. Draws on new research from the SEQUAL Project, undertaken for the European Social Fund, which investigated seven dimensions of discrimination in a labour market. Provides an overall analysis of policy shifts and presents a range of illustrative studies that give voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups. Chapters deal with obstacles to labour-market access around each of the following themes: gender and class; disability; race and ethnicity; geographical exclusion; sexual orientation; the problems of old and young people; and refugees.
Call number 108A328
- Breaking the barriers to higher economic growth : better governance and deeper reforms in the Middle East and North Africa / Mustapha Kamel Nabli.
Washington : World Bank, 2007. xi, 486 p.
Looks at the long-term development challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Suggests a comprehensive reform agenda aimed at high economic growth ans which will create sufficient jobs for the region's rapidly growing labour force. Argues for a move of the public-sector dominated economies to private-sector driven ones, from closed to more open economies, and from oil-dominated and volatile economies to more stable and diversified economies.
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Call number 107B03/120 engl
- Capitalism at the crossroads : aligning business, earth, and humanity / Stuart L. Hart ; new foreword by Al Gore.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Publishing, 2007 xIi, 260 p.
Argues that corporations, since they dispose of the necessary resources, technology and worldwide reach, can accelerate, rather than inhibit, the transformation towards global sustainability. Describes features of the initative created by The Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory, a consortium of large corporations, new ventures and NGOs. Details their approach to serve the needs of the largest portion of the world population in a way that is culturally appropriate, environmentally sustainable and economically profitable.
Call number 108A663
- Complex not simple : the vocational education and training pathway from welfare to work / Kate Barnett, John Spoehr.
Adelaide : NCVER, 2008. 38 p.
Focuses on the requirements for people intending or expected to move from income support to paid work. Examines the obstacles to obtaining sustainable employment, such as inadequate policies about training eligibility, limited funding for longer courses, obstacles posed by poor literacy and numeracy, lack of transport or child services, and insufficient support services. Points to the importance of pre-vocational courses that address basic and remedial education needs.
Call number 108A639
- Determinants of pro-poor growth : analytical issues and findings from country cases / edited by Michael Grimm, Stephan Klasen and Andrew McKay.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xvii, 269 p.
Analyses the factors determining pro-poor growth, using ex-post analytical tools and ex-ante simulation methods. Gives examples from countries in Africa, Asia,Latin America and Eastern Europe, covering the period 1990-2003. Places particular emphasis on the role of regional inequality, price and policy reforms as well as political economy issues affecting pro-poor growth at the country level.
Call number 108A664
- An East Asian renaissance : ideas for economic growth / Indermit Singh Gill, Homi Kharas ; together with Deepak Bhattasali ... [et al.].
Washington, DC : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2007. xv, 365 p.
Looks at the performance of East Asia during the period 1980-2005, noting growing economies, increasing regional integration, and transforming societies. Elaborates how governments should adopt development strategies to address the ongoing changes.
Call number 108B03/121 engl
- Employment relationships : new models of white-collar work / edited by Peter Cappelli.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 264 p.
Explores current changes in the nature of white-collar employment: from lifetime tenure and an often hierarchical work structure to settings defined by flatter organizations, job insecurity, and contingent work. Discusses issues of outside hiring, lateral moves in shaping and managing careers, and greater variety in organizational structures. Gives examples including working in call centres and large law firms, and analyses triadic employment relationships that involve a labour market intermediary, a worker and a client firm.
Call number 108A588
- L'engagement de la Banque mondiale face au VIH/SIDA en Afrique : notre programme d'action, 2007-2011.
Washington, D.C. : Banque mondiale, 2008. xvii, 118 p.
Actualise et recentre l'action engagée par la Banque pour aider les pays à atteindre le sixième objectif de développement pour le Millénaire en contribuant à enrayer la propagation du VIH/SIDA et commencer à inverser la tendance. Ce programme d'action est une feuille de route qui réaffirme la détermination de l'Institution à combattre le sida en Afrique et prend le relai du programme d'urgence initial en indiquant de quelle manière la Banque contribuera à mettre en oeuvre un plan d'action viable à long terme avec la participation de divers partenaires.
Call number 108B03/9 fren
- Explaining social exclusion [electronic resource] : a theoretical model tested in the Netherlands / Gerda Jehoel-Gijsbers, Cok Vrooman.
The Hague : The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, 2007. 42 p.
Using data of a survey of 860 Dutch households collected in the summer of 2003, develops a conceptual model for social exclusion and a methodology for its empirical assessment. Defines the concept of social exclusion and analyses the main risk factors.
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- Global inequality [electronic resource] : recent evidence and trends / Duangkamon Chotikapanich ... [et al.].
Helsinki : UNU-WIDER, 2007. 34 p.
Examines the nature and extent of global and regional income distribution and inequality using the most recent country level data on income distribution drawn from World Bank and UNU-WIDER studies for the period 1993-2000.
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- Globalization and the urban poor [electronic resource] / Janice E. Perlman.
Helsinki : UNU-WIDER, 2007. 27 p.
Focuses on the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the "global south". Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities, slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns, collectively called "informal settlements". Using Brazil as an example, draws comparisons between the lives of the poor during the isolationist period of "import substitution" and the military dictatorship and their current lives in the context of pervasive globalization of ideas, icons, and identities
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- Horizontal inequalities and conflict : understanding group violence in multiethnic societies / edited by Frances Stewart; foreword by Kofi Annan.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xxi, 364 p.
Looks at intergroup conflict in various countries since World War II. Describes inequalities faced by members of particular religions and ethnic groups with respect to political, social, economic and cultural dimensions. Identifies policies that reduce horizontal inequalities and which should be routinely incorporated into the development agenda.
Call number 108A618
- The ILO : an agency for globalization? / Guy Standing.
In Development and change. (Oxford : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) Vol. 39, no. 3 (May 2008) p. 355-384
Critically evaluates the role of the ILO as a standard-setter, a technical assistance agency and a knowledge generator as it responds to the disembedding phase of globalization. Questions whether the ILO can become an effective development agency given the changing character of work and labour in globalizing labour markets and its governance structure.
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Call number 43146(2008-3)355-384
- Indicators of sustainable development : guidelines and methodologies / United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
New York : UN, 2007. 93 p. +, 1 computer laser optical disk.
Printed and CD-ROM editions describing 99 indicators of sustainable development (retained from the initial set of 134 indicators defined by the Commission on Sustainable Development (CDS)), grouped by 14 themes: poverty; governance; health education; demographics; natural hazards; atmosphere; land; oceans, seas and coasts; freshwater; biodiversity; economic development; global economic partnership; consumption and production patterns. Gives definitions, measurement, and their policy relevance in relation to Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, and MDG indicators.
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Call number 107B01/63 engl
- Making sustainability work : best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental and economic impacts / Marc J. Epstein ; with forewords by John Elkington and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard.
Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf Pub. ; 2008. 288 p. .
Addressed to corporate managers throughout the world, provides a framework and model for implementing sustainability in large, complex, global organizations. Cites best-practice examples of some 100 companies.
Call number 108A528
- Multinational enterprise and economic analysis / Richard E. Caves.
Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2007 xi, 391 p.
Explores the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of national and international economies. Covering both theories and tests of hypotheses, and synthesizing material from social science and applied disciplines, develops the logic behind public policies that affect multinational enterprises. Shows the points of harmony and conflict between national policies and sources of discrepancy between national and world welfare.
Call number 108A673
- Occupational structures across 25 EU countries : the importance of industry structure and technology in old and new EU countries / Frank Cörvers, Jaanika Meriküll.
Maastricht : Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, 2008. 30 p.
Uses shift-share analyses to decompose cross-country differences in occupational structure within industry and between industry. Finds a relatively lower share of skilled workers in the new EU member states, whereas changes in the share of high-skilled non-production workers are dominated by the between industrial effect. Considers the relationship with skill-biased technological change in the period 2000-2004.
Call number 108A652
- Politiques menées au nom de l'emploi et mutations des ressources des travailleurs : une comparaison européenne / Jean-Pascal Higele, Andreana Khristova.
In Revue de l'IRES. (Noisy-le-Grand : Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales.) No. 53 (2007) p. 139-167
Analyse dans quelle mesure les politiques publiques de l'emploi transforment de manière significative la nature et le montant des ressources des travailleurs en Europe.
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- Retooling for growth : building a 21st century economy in America's older industrial areas / Richard M. McGahey, Jennifer S. Vey, editors.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2008. xv, 437 p.
Collection of essays on the rehabilitation of weak market cities in the US. Addresses development challenges such as fostering entrepreneurship, reducing poverty and inequality, and maintaining and augmenting the skilled labour force as well as connected policy issues.
Call number 108A640
- Social policies and private sector participation in water supply : beyond regulation / edited by Naren Prasad ; UNRISD.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xx, 237 p.
Demonstrates that when reforming the water sector, policy makers should put in place appropriate social policies in order to mitigate the negative impact of such reform. Discusses, by means of seven country studies, issues of access to water services, water quality, affordability and water poverty, private sector participation, etc.
Call number 108B01/9 engl
- Sustainable development : issues and perspectives / edited by R.N. Pati, Odile Schwarz-Herion.
New Delhi : D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 2007. xii, 572 p.
Focuses on the role of local knowledge systems in sustainable development. Reports on experience, from a number of countries around the world, relating to herbs in traditional medicine, issues of local governance, the contribution of treadle pumps towards poverty reduction, recognition of indigenous rights, etc.
Call number 108A578
- Sustainable value : how the world's leading companies are doing well by doing good / Chris Laszlo ; with a foreword by Patrick J. Cescau.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008. 208 p.
Addressed at young people envisaging a business career and established business managers looking for guidance on environmental and social sustainability. Sets out with a management fable about a CEO concerned with her company's impacts on society and the environment. Showcases mainstream global industry leaders who integrate sustainability into their core activities. Gives examples from a number of transnational corporations, including DuPont, Wal-Mart, Lafarge, and NatureWorks LLC, notably ways of creating shareholder and stakeholder value.
Call number 108A529
- Universal human rights : origins and development / Stephen James.
New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2007. vii, 293 p.
Analyses how human rights principles developed into a body of international law and how it was shaped through global western imperialism and influenced by non-state actors. Traces how it evolved since antiquity up to World War II and its aftermath. Describes the 1966 Covenants, comprising the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on Economic and Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), colloquially known as the International Bill of Rights.
Call number 108A415
- Voyages du développement : émigration, commerce, exil / sous la direction de Fariba Adelkhah et Jean-François Bayart.
Paris : Karthala, 2007. 368 p.
S'intéresse au voyage en tant que pratique de développement et objet de l'économie ou de l'anthropologie du développement. Identifie des similitudes entre l'expérience de voyage et les pratiques migratoires et soutient que le voyage doit devenir un sujet à part entière de l'aide au développement.
Call number 108A466
- Vulnerability to poverty [electronic resource] / Cesar Calvo and Stefan Dercon ; Centre for the Study of African Economies.
[Oxford : CSAE, 2007]. 24 p.
Explores the notion of vulnerability to poverty, defined as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before uncertainty has been resolved.
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- Wage setting, social pacts and the Euro : a new role for the state / Anke Hassel.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 334 p.
Offers a theoretical understanding of the challenges that increasing monetary integration posed for existing modes of adjustment in the political economies of EU member states and explains why many governments have chosen to negotiate with trade unions over economic adjustment.
Call number 108A676
- Women empowerment : challenges and strategies / editor-in-chief, Mudunuri Lakshmipathi Raju, associate editor, Vankayalapati Venkateswarlu ; forword by V. Balamohan Das.
New Delhi : Regal Publications, 2007. xxv, 510 p.
Spells out various perspectives on women empowerment and the issues and problems faced by women. Considers theoretical and historical aspects, women and health, women and development, and women and social justice. Reviews policies, programmes and strategies, taking into account the role of social workers, social activists, women activists, women's organizations and women's groups, and NGOs.
Call number 108A595
- Working hours and job sharing in the EU and USA : are Europeans lazy? Or American crazy / edited by Tito Boeri, Michael C. Burda and Francis Kramarz.
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 269 p.
Explores the changing nature of the hours worked in the USA and the EU, as well as the effects of policies that impose working hour reductions.
Call number 108A329
- The World Bank and global managerialism / Jonathan Murphy.
London ; Routledge, 2008. xiv, 189 p.
Argues that a new type of hierarchical social order, "global managerialism", is developing on a world scale. Describes the likely economic, political and social impacts. Highlights how the traditional hierarchical structure, epitomised in the nation state, is superseded by formal and informal transnational organizational networks, and how the global elite's power is exercised through managerialism.
Call number 108A574
- The World Bank's commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa : our agenda for action, 2007-2011.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2008. xvii, 125 p.
Updates and refocuses the Bank's response to assist countries to achieve the sixth Millennium Development Goal, to help halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. This Agenda for Action is a road map for reaffirming the Bank's commitment to combating AIDS in Africa, moving from its initial emergency response to how it will contribute to a long-term, sustainable, multi-partner response.
Call number 108B03/9 engl
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