Adquisiciones recientes de la Biblioteca

Hemos seleccionado para Ud. los libros y artículos siguientes de interés general para los funcionarios de la OIT. Están disponibles en la Biblioteca a partir de su publicación en esta lista que actualizaremos cada dos semanas.

• A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India [electronic resource] / Martin Ravallion ; the World Bank, Director's Office, Development Research Group.
  Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2009.  36 p.
  Aims to measure and understand the progress against poverty in Brazil, China and India. Starts with a comparison of their overall performances, before examining each in turn. Finally, tries to draw out some themes and lessons. Shows that Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons.
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• Children and youth in the labour process in Africa / edited by Osita Agbu.
  Dakar : CODESRIA, 2009.  227 p.
  Describes the sources, dynamics and consequences of exploiting children and youth in selected French speaking African countries and Nigeria. Covers issues of child trafficking, their working on farms, in prostitution, as dancer, etc. Notes ILO's role and relevant Conventions relating to combating child labour.
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• La contratación y colocación de la gente del mar en el Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo / Inmaculada Ballester Pastor.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 165-188
  Realiza un análisis comparativo sobre las condiciones de contratación y colocación de la gente del mar, incluídas en los previos Convenios no. 9 y no. 179 y en el actual Convenio de 2006 sobre trabajo marítimo, y expone el estado de la cuestión en el ordenamiento español así como la posible incidencia que podrían tener los dictados del Convenio en la regulación española.
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• El Convenio internacional sobre normas de formación, titulación y guardia para el personal de los buques pesqueros, 1995 (STCW-F), de la OMI y su futura aplicación en España / Aránzazu Morala del Campo,
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 159-163
  Analiza la regulación en materia de formación y titulación y guardia, que establece el Convenio Internacional sobre Normas de Formación, Titulación y Guardia para el personal de los buques pesqueros, de 1995, de la Organización Marítima Internacional (OMI), y las actuaciones realizadas por el Estado español en dicha materia.
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• Convenio marítimo 2006. Mucho más que un convenio para los trabajadores de la mar / Jon Azkue Manterola.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 39-43
  Expone las aportaciones que el Convenio sobre Trabajo Marítimo de la OIT (2006) puede suponer en la consecución de las condiciones de trabajo decente para la gente del mar, y plantea el papel que juegan los sindicatos y la patronal naviera para la aplicación de tal Convenio.
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• El Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo, cuarto pilar del Derecho internacional marítimo / Patrick Chaumette.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 65-76
  Analiza el Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo, adoptado en 2006 por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), que consolida los convenios anteriores de la OIT sobre el trabajo marítimo en la marina mercante, adoptados desde 1920, constituyendo el cuarto instrumento de derecho internacional marítimo junto a los tres primeros constituidos por los convenios de la Organización Marítima Internacional (OMI): el convenio SOLAS, de 1974, sobre seguridad de la vida en el mar; MARPOL, de 1973, acerca de la contaminación marítima, y STCW de 1978 y 1995, relativo a las normas de formación, titulación y guardia.
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• El Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo. Requisitos para trabajar a bordo de buques: edad mínima, certificado médico, formación y calificaciones / Sara Ruano Albertos.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 125-158
  Analiza las normas mínimas que han de observarse en materia de edad mínima, certificado médico, formación y calificaciones, antes de que la gente de mar pueda trabajar a bordo de un buque, establecidas por el Convenio de Trabajo Marítimo (2006), y su articulación con la legislación española.
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• El Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo y el Derecho social comunitario / Cristina Sánchez-Rodas Navarro.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 45-64
  Examina la incorporación del Convenio OIT sobre el trabajo marítimo, 2006, a los ordenamientos nacionales como fuente de derecho comunitario y de derecho internacional, que regula, entre otras, una materia que es competencia exclusiva comunitaria: la coordinación de regímenes de Seguridad social. Destaca, asimismo, el papel desempeñado por la Unión Europea impulsando el reforzamiento de las normas que regulan el trabajo marítimo a nivel comunitario, lo que ha cristalizado en la Directiva del Consejo por la que se aplica el Acuerdo celebrado entre la Asociación de Armadores de la Comunidad Europea y la Federación Europea de Trabajadores del Transporte relativo al convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo, 2006.
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• Corporate social responsibility and regulatory governance : towards inclusive development? / edited by Peter Utting, José Carlos Marques ; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).
  Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.  xv, 309 p.
  Assesses the global rise of private regulation and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement from the perspective of social and sustainable development. Examines why the experience of CSR pales in comparison with the promise, what needs to be done to address 'the intellectual crisis' of CSR, and forms of corporate accountability and regulation more conducive to inclusive patterns of development.
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• Corporate social responsibility and workers' rights / Lance Compa.
  In Comparative labor law & policy journal. (Champaign, IL. : University of Illinois College of Law.) Vol. 30, no. 1(2009)  16 p.
  Examines the role of corporate social responsibility programmes and related codes of conduct in advancing workers' rights. Discusses the participation of companies, unions and nongovernmental organizations in the formulation and implemerntation of of a code of conduct. Considers the relationship to government of the All-China Confederation of Trade Unions.
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• Creating an opportunity society / Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill ; Brookings Institution.
  Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2009.  xiii, 347 p.
  Presents essays on how to change American economic and social policy to promote a more productive and less unequal society. Considers aspects of opportunity and personal responsibility, poverty, family background, intergenerational mobility, etc.
  Call number 109A698 


• Creating forestry jobs to boost the economy and build a green future / C.T.S. Nair and R. Rutt.
  In Unasylva (engl. Ed.). (Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.) Vol. 60, no. 233 (2009)  p. 3-10
  Argues that forestry could have a positive role in the economic stabilization efforts, particularly through job creation and the rebuilding of the natural capital base. Touches upon afforestation and reforestation, maintenance and improvement of planted forests, watershed improvement, forest conservation, agroforestry, fire management, urban and peri-urban green spaces, etc.
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• Credit constraints and the persistence of unemployment [electronic resource] / Nicolas Dromel, Elie Kolakez, Etienne Lehmann ; Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit.
  Bonn : IZA, 2009.  22 p.
  Argues that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. Providing an empirical illustration based on a country panel dataset of 20 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003, suggests that credit market imperfections significantly increase the persistence of unemployment.
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• Crisis and protection in the automotive industry [electronic resource] : a global value chain perspective / Timothy J. Sturgeon, Johannes Van Biesebroeck ; the World Bank, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, International Trade Department.
  Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2009.  24 p.
  Applies global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to government interventions triggered by the recent economic crisis.
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• El derecho a la atención médica y a la protección de Seguridad Social y las responsabilidades exigibles al armador por enfermedad, lesiones y muerte por causas laborales de la gente de mar en el Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo de 2006 / Xosé Manuel Carril Vázquez.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 383-393
  Analiza el impacto del Convenio sobre el Trabajo Marítimo de 2006 en el derecho español y el derecho de la gente de mar para acceder a la protección de seguridad social. En particular, examina el derecho de la gente de mar a la atención médica a bordo de buque y en tierra, así como la responsabilidad del armador en caso de enfermedad, accidente y muerte de la gente de mar.
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• Économie de la microfinance en Afrique subsaharienne / Komi Djadé.
  Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009.  249 p.
  Examine la place de la microfinance dans l'économie de l'Afrique subsaharienne à travers l'exemple de plusieurs expériences en Afrique francophone et anglophone. Décrit la mission, l'organisation, les produits financiers et l'impact de 6 institutions de microfinance.
  Call number 109A784 


• Employment protection legislation in Russia [electronic resource] : regional enforcement and labour market outcomes / Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova ; Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit.
  Bonn : IZA, 2009.  34 p.
  Using data set based on the State Labour Inspectorate data and the Supreme Court statistics on labour disputes in Russia over the period 2000-2005, analyses cross-regional and inter-temporal variation in employment protection legislation enforcement and explores empirically whether it is translated into regional labour market outcomes.
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• El empresario marítimo : delimitación desde la perspectiva laboral / Lourdes Meléndez Morillo-Velarde.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 77-106
  Examina la identificación del empresario marítimo como sujeto de la relación laboral de embarco. Analiza las responsabilidades en que los empresarios incurren directa o indirectamente en la contratación y colocación de trabajadores marítimos. En particular, y con el propósito de identificar al empleador marítimo, aborda el análisis de las formas de colaboración entre empresarios marítimos a través de las agencias de embarque para dicha contratación.
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• The end of influence : what happens when other countries have the money / Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong.
  New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2010.  ix, 165 p.
  Argues that at the end of World War II, the United States had all the money, and all the power. Now, America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent power follows money. Explores the consequences this loss will have for America's place in the world and its future as a superpower. Examines also American's complicated relationship with China, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the return of state-led capitalism.
  Call number 110A10 


• Eu labor markets after post-enlargement migration / Editors; Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann.
  Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2010.  viii, 344 p.
  Examines how EU enlargement affected the destination and source labour markets. Covering the period 1996-2007, considers pull and push factors, brain drain, unemployment, return migration, etc. for selected countries of the EU-15 and the EU-27, resp.
  Call number 109A744 


• The exceptional decline of the American labor movement / John Godard.
  In Industrial and labor relations review. (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University.) Vol. 63, no. 1 (Oct. 2009)  p. 82-108
  Argues that the decline of the labour movement stems from national founding conditions and the dominant institutional norms. Takes a historic perspective of the evolution of these norms, role of the Wagner Act, and the emergence of business unionism.
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• Experiencias de formalización empresarial y laboral en Centroamérica [electronic resource] : un análisis comparativo en Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua / Juan Chacaltana.
  Santiago : CEPAL, 2009.  73 p.
  Describe y analiza las principales políticas, programas y proyectos aplicados para apoyar los procesos de formalización laboral y empresarial en la economía informal. Se explora las experiencias orientadas a mejorar e incrementar el desarrollo empresarial, sobre todo aquellas relacionadas con el incremento de la productividad de las empresas más pequeñas, la aplicación de mecanismos de tipo microeconómico y de régimen tributario, complementados con estrategias económicas para incrementar los beneficios de la formalidad.
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• Exports, unemployment, and the welfare state / Eckhard Janeba.
  In Canadian journal of economics = Revue canadienne d'économique. (Oxford : Blackwell Publishing.Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press.) Vol. 42, no. 3 (Aug. 2009)  p. 930-955
  Analyzes the labour market effects of globalization, when the entry of Canadian exporting firms in foreign markets is costly and risky. Develops a model of firms that compete for foreign market rents and finds that such type of entry in foreign markets tends to increase unemployment.
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• Finance and labor : perspectives on risk, inequality, and democracy / Sanford M. Jacoby.
  In Comparative labor law & policy journal. (Champaign, IL. : University of Illinois College of Law.) Vol. 30, no. 1(2009)  p. 17-65
  Explores the relationship between financial markets and labor markets. Focuses on the period from the late 19th century through the 1970s. Considers the political and ideological bases for post-1980 financial development and corporate governance. Traces various movements to contain financial development, including the contribution of organized labour.
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• The financial crisis and its impact on developing countries [electronic resource] / Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo ; International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
  Brasilia : IPC-IG, 2009.  16 p.
  Identifies the transmission mechanisms of the financial crisis from developed to developing countries and provides broad policy recommendations at the national, global and regional level. Identifies three mechanisms that play a key role in spreading the consequences of the financial crisis to the developing world : remittances, capital flows and trade. Indicates that a fair number of countries have policy space to protect vulnerable groups in the short run as well as to undertake investments to build resilience and reach the Millenium Development Goals in the longer term. Other countries will need additional development assistance to protect development achievements.
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• Fiscal space : policy options for financing human development / Edited by Rathin Roy and Antoine Heuty ; United Nations Development Programme.
  New York : UNDP, 2009.  xx, 499 p.
  Addresses the central concern for policymakers involved in long term planning for the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs): how to create "fiscal space" for the MDGs and strengthen domestic resource mobilization for human development, while ensuring long-term sustainability and freedom from reliance on aid.
  Call number 109B01/40 engl 


• The global economic crisis [electronic resource] : challenges for developing Asia and ADB's response / [prepared by a team lead by Indu Bhushan] ; Asian Development Bank.
  Manila : ADB, 2009.  25 p.
  Provides an overview of the evolving economic crisis in developing Asia and the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) response. Describes the main drivers of the crisis in the region and the major impacts on ADB's developing member countries (DMCs). Examines important policy issues the crisis has raised for developing Asia and summarizes the reforms DMCs should undertake to respond in the short run and to strengthen their resilience to external shocks in the longer term.
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• Globalization, knowledge and labour : education for solidarity within spaces of resistance / edited by Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo.
  Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.  xii, 245 p.
  Looks into how trade unions and allied organizations develop and implement strategies, how globalization affects these, and whether new collective ways of struggle emerge as a result of these changes. Draws on insights from the knowledge-production process of unions from different parts of the world and sheds light on the central importance of knowledge production and processes of learning as they relate to strategy development within labour movements.
  Call number 109A779 


• Handbook on integrated community development : Seven D Approach to community capacity development / Asian Productivity Organization.
  Tokyo : APO, 2009.  vi, 148 p.
  Provides guidance to community members in taking a leadership role in managing affairs at the local level and utilizing resources for increasing productivity and meeting community needs. Defines community, capacity, community capacity development, and related notions. Explains the Seven D Approach: Participatory Rural Approach, Kaizen, PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) Cycle, LFA (Logical Framework Approach) and PCM (Project Cycle Approach), Experiential Leaning and Knowledge Spiral, and Facilitation. Discusses a case study of community development, capacity enhancement as well as of succour initiatives by communities in Fiji.
  Call number 109B22/8 engl 


• Human rights in labor and employment relations : international and domestic perspectives / edited by James A. Gross and Lance Compa.
  Champaign, IL : LERA, 2009.  237 p.
  Collection of papers on the proposition that workers' rights are human rights and how they relate to labour activism and advocacy in a market-driven global economy. Considers health and safety at the workplace, child labour, freedom of association, protection of migrant and forced labour, human rights from a corporate perspective, employment discrimination, etc., referring to the situation in the United States and other industrial countries, and elsewhere. Includes an ILO contribution, co-authored by Barbary Murray, entitled "Human rights of workers with disabilities".
  Call number 109A800 


• The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine [electronic resource] / Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth ; Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit.
  Bonn : IZA, 2009.  33 p.
  Using longitudinal data from the 2003 and 2004 waves of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitor Survey (ULMS), examines the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce.
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• La industria de microfinanzas en Guatemala [electronic resource] : estudio de casos / Paulo de León.
  Santiago : CEPAL, 2009.  58 p.
  Describe y analiza el desarrollo de la industria del microcrédito, en materia de tamaño, tendencias y participantes, que incluye el movimiento de cooperativas de ahorro y crédito, instituciones de microfinanzas alternativas, muchas de ellas organizaciones no gubernamentales o fundaciones privadas, y el ingreso de los bancos comerciales en las microfinanzas. Examina las buenas prácticas de las instituciones financieras que las han hecho exitosas y su impacto en el acercamiento de los servicios financieros a los más necesitados.
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• Inequality and internal migration in China [electronic resource] : evidence from village panel data / Wei Ha, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang ; United Nations Development Programme.
  New York : PNUD, 2009.  38 p.
  Analyses the impact of rural urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions using a newly constructed panel dataset for around 100 villages over a ten-year period from 1997 to 2006 in China.
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• Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market [electronic resource] : the recent Brazilian experience / Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri, and Hyun H. Son ; United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research.
  Helsinki : UNU-WIDER, 2009.  30 p.
  Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004, analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes.
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• The livelihood assessment tool-kit : analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and International Labour Organization (ILO).
  Rome : FAO ; 2009.  v, 191 p.
  Guidelines of use in assessing the impact of disasters, such as heavy storms, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides, on the livelihoods of people and the capacity and opportunities for recovery, and increased resilience to future events. Comprises four parts: Methodological and conceptual overview; Livelihood baseline and contingency plan; Initial livelihood impact appraisal; Detailed livelihood assessment.
  Call number 109B07/11 engl 


• Microfinanzas e instituciones microfinancieras en Colombia : [electronic resource] / Javier Serrano Rodríguez.
  Santiago : Naciones Unidas, CEPAL, 2009.  96 p.
  Analiza los aspectos más importantes del desarrollo de las microfinanzas poniendo énfasis en la descripción de las instituciones microfinancieras, conformadas por las cooperativas financieras y por las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito. Diferencia el campo de microfinanzas de sus actividades tradicionales de captación y colocación de recursos en estratos de bajos ingresos, y con una oferta de microcrédito dirigida a microempresarios.
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• Organising and bargaining in the downturn : a guide for unions / Trade Union Congress, Labour Research Department.
  London : TUC, [2009].  48 p.
  Guide intended for activists, officers and organisers at the forefront of union efforts to represent members as effectively as possible in times of economic recession. Concentrates on pensions, layoffs and short-time working, wage freeze and pay cut, and mergers and takeover.
  Call number 109A743 


• The people factor : strengthening America by investing in public service / Linda J. Bilmes, W. Scott Gould.
  Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2009.  xv, 359 p.
  Explains why the US governmental personnel system requires reform and what it would cost. Proposes a system structured around people-management techniques that have worked best in other organizations. Focuses on training, leadership skills, good human resources practices from the military as well as federal government, state and local governments, greater flexibility, and performance management. Concludes about how to implement a reformed civil service, and the roles of the various stakeholders therein. Presents the perceptions of the public sector by college juniors and seniors.
  Call number 109A341 


• The politics of parental leave policies : children, parenting, gender and the labour market / Edited by Sheila B. Kamerman and Peter Moss.
  Bristol ; The Policy Press, 2009.  viii, 284 p.
  Looking at parental leave policy within a wider work/family context, addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries.
  Call number 109A799 


• Put to work : the WPA and public employment in the Great Depression / by Nancy E. Rose.
  New York, N.Y. : Monthly Review Press, 2009.  136 p.
  Describes, analyses, and evaluates three major New Deal job-creation programmes: the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
  Call number 110A1 


• Rebuilding rural India : potential for further investments in forestry and green jobs / J.R. Matta.
  In Unasylva (engl. Ed.). (Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.) Vol. 60, no. 233 (2009)  p. 36-41
  Analyses the expected gains when investing in forestry to counteract the current economic crisis, in terms of employment as well as other social, economic and environmental benefits.
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• La regulación del salario en el Convenio sobre el Trabajo Marítimo. Regulación internacional y normativa interna / María Ángeles Burgos Giner.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 189-217
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• Report of the conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development : New York, 24-30 June 2009 / United Nations.
  New York, N.Y. : United Nations, 2009.  iii, 56 p.
  Call number 109B01/33 engl 


• Report of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty [electronic resource] : note by the Secretary-General / United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-fourth session.
  New York, N.Y. : United Nations, 2009.  24 p.
  Addresses the impact of the current global financial crisis on people living in extreme poverty and the enjoyment of their human rights. Stresses that the crisis offers an opportunity to move beyond the restructuring of the global financial and monetary systems and to place people at the centre of policy measures by enhancing social protection systems from a human rights-based approach. Describes how human rights standards provide a normative framework for the adoption of social protection measures and provide guidance for their design, implementation and evaluation.
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• El rol de Panamá frente al Convenio sobre el trabajo marítimo / Nyxkhary Ardil Guillén.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 29-37
  Examina el sistema de control instaurado en la República de Panamá tanto en su condición de Estado del Pabellón, verificando y controlando, a través de la Dirección de la Marina Mercante y las inspecciones laborales marítimas de servicio interior, el cumplimiento de los Convenios de la OIT ratificados por la República de Panamá sobre condiciones de trabajo, para los marinos que trabajan en los buques que enarbolan su bandera, y del Convenio de trabajo marítimo (2006).
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• Rules of relief : institutions of social security, and their impact / J.C. Vrooman.
  The Hague : The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, 2009.  542 p.
  Comprises five chapters: Institutional theory; Social security and the institutional approach; Regimes of social security; Benefit dependency; Poverty. Uses the models of three types of welfare states, first established by Gøsta Esping-Andersen: social democratic (Scandinavian model), corporatist (Rhineland model), and liberal regimes (Anglo-Saxon model). Discusses differences in types of benefit, benefit growth and poverty rates.
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• Social dialogue in France and reactions to the financialisation of the economy / Isabelle Chambost, Christian Hoarau and Patrick Roturier.
  In Transfer. (Brussels : European Trade Union Institute.) No. 2 (2009)  p. 271-289
  Examines the impact of the financialisation of companies on social dialogue. Discusses the phenomenon of financialisation as a business model that determine corporate operations and the related reconsideration of trade union attitude.
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• A ticket to work? : Policies for the young unemployed in Britain and Germany / Bettina Kohlrausch.
  New York, N.Y. : Campus Verlag, 2009.  176 p.
  Compares the respective programmes to help young people enter the job market: the New Deal for Young People (NDYP), with data from 1998-2004, and the Sofortprogramm gegen Jugendarbeitslosigkeit (JUMP), with data for 1999-2000. Details the conditions of skills training and job-placement assistance. Discusses the training programmes in context of the general political and economic climate, drawing a contrast between Britain's more liberal market economy and Germany's more structured and coordinated regime.
  Call number 110A16 


• Trabajo decente en el transporte marítimo / Francisco Arnau Navarro.
  In Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.) No. 82 (2009)  p. 17-27
  Analiza la aportación del Convenio de Trabajo Marítimo de la OIT (2006) en el marco que desde 2000 lleva a cabo la OIT en favor de conseguir la necesaria dimensión social de la globalización en el conjunto de actuaciones a favor de condiciones de trabajo y de vida decentes.
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• Understanding labor and employment law in China / Ronald C. Brown.
  New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.  xiv, 332 p.
  Provides an overview of China's regulation of the workplace, employment relationships, hiring and employment practices, working conditions, social security, resolving labour disputes, sample contracts, etc. Appends the English versions, taken from Labor Info China, of: Labour Law of the People's Republic of China; Labour contract law; Regulation on the implementation of the employment contract law; Law on labour dispute mediation and arbitration; Employment promotion law of the People's Republic of China.
  Call number 109A806 


• The unheard truth : poverty and human rights / Irene Khan with David Petrasek.
  New York : Amnesty International, 2009.  xv, 250 p.
  Describes poverty as the world's worst human rights crisis as it traps people in a viccious cycle of deprivation, insecurity, exclusion, and voicelessness. Argues that the foremost challenge is the empowerment of poor people and calls for action to uphold human rights in the fight to end poverty.
  Call number 109A790 


• Urban poor in China : a descriptive analysis / Shunfeng Song, Erqian Zhu, and Sankar Mukhopadhyay.
  In Chinese economy. (Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe.) Vol. 42, no. 4 (July-Aug. 2009)  p. 44-62
  Using data from a 2007 survey of some 1600 low-income households in Changsha, investigates characteristics of migrant workers and their city counterparts regarding income, employment, social support, housing, most-needed government assistance, and reasons for migration.
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  Call number 43205(2009-4)44-62 


• Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America's poor / edited by James P. Ziliak.
  New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2009.  xii, 372 p.
  Reviews the outcome of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ("welfare reform"), with particular reference to the effect of expanded Earned Income Tax Credit on the level and distribution of income, the composition of consumption, employment, public vs. private health insurance coverage, health and education outcomes of children, marriage, and social service delivery.
  Call number 109A807 


• Youth unemployment and poverty in Moldova [electronic resource] : current situation and possible response / Nick Maddock and Lovita Ramguttee.
  Nairobi : UNEP, 2009.  3 p.
  Examines recent data and trends in youth unemployment in the Republic of Moldova, its linkages to poverty and proposes some possible responses to the socio-economic problems resulting from increased youth unemployment in the country.
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