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Title

Promoting better working conditions : a guide to the international labor standards system.

Author

International Labour Organisation

Publication

Washington, D.C. : International Labor Organization, c2003.

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Description

48 p. : col. ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This guide was written especially for U.S. readers. It provides a summary of procedures for producing and ratifying ILO conventions, supervision, and monitoring. It includes a glossary of standards bodies and reports as well as an Internet Guide and Bibliography. This is an ideal introduction to the International Labor Standards System for managers and employees of governments, companies, worker associations and unions."

Alternative Title

• Guide to the international labor standards system
• International labor standards system

Subject

• International Labour Organisation
• Labor laws and legislation, International
• Employee rights

Note

• Title from cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An overview of international labor standards -- Setting standards: the making of an ILO convention -- Ratifying ILO conventions in the United States -- Supervising and promoting labor standards-overview -- Supervising compliance with ratified conventions -- Monitoring when countries don't ratify conventions -- Protecting the most fundamental rights -- Making a difference with international labor standards -- Global consensus on fundamental principles and rights at work -- Appendix A: a note on Article 33 -- Appendix B: "actively promoted" conventions -- Appendix C: key ILO bodies -- Appendix D: key ILO reports -- Appendix E: Internet guide -- Appendix F: bibliography.

OCLC

• 52393602
• SCSB-10152139

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library