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Does work in multinational enterprises give women in developing countries an opportunity to free themselves from the restrictions of existing social structures? Information from 30 developing countries is analysed to provide examples of the situat...

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The main aim of the present volume is to assess the responsibility of educational authorities in the employment problem of less developed countries. Are there reasons to think that the quantity and quality of education in these countries have a si...

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This guide has been prepared with a view to helping developing countries in their effort to promote the orderly settlement of industrial disputes through conciliation. Its aim is to meet the needs not only of professional or full-time conciliators...

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Occupational Safety and Health Series No. 30 Contents: - Report of the Meeting of Experts on the safe use of asbestos, Geneva, 11-18 December 1973 - Health hazards of asbestos by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Department of Employment, U...

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Among the many factors that contribute to the deterioration of the working environment, noise and vibration have an important place. This code of practice, adopted at a meeting of experts convened by the ILO, sets out the principles that should be...

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Contents: What is a basic needs approach to development all about? by D.P. Ghai On the principles of quantifying and satisfying basic needs by D.P. Ghai and T. Alfthan Some normative aspects of a basic neeeds strategy by E.L.H. Lee Basic needs tar...

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Prevention of accidents and occupational diseases requires an exact knowledge of the sequence of causes, for only then can the necessary preventive measures be correctly chosen and fully applied. Owning to the constantly changing conditions as wel...

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Management Development Series No. 17 "The ILO has ... produced a manual on the case method with a view to helping managements schools, teachers and trainers, as well as participants in management programmes, to use the method more effectively...

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Trade Union Functions and Services: An instructional aid for worker students This guide, aimed at trade union educators, is about the teaching of collective bargaining. From the methods and techniques described, the trainer can put together a tail...

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Women, Work and Development Series The majority of women around the world work long hours and contribute significantly to production and to family income, although this fact is not generally recognised in attitudes and policies or reflected in off...

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Accident prevention. A workers' education manual. 2nd (revised) edition Workers are becoming more and more aware of the role that they, and the management, can play in reducing the number of occupational accidents. The 14 chapters in the manual ar...

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This manual is based on field work undertaken in the project countries (Ghana and Sierra Leone), and benefited additionally from the results of a field visit to Senegal. Its special features are: (a) the target audience consists of government inst...

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Report of an ILO/UNITAR international seminar, held in Tashkent, USSR, 11-19 October 1983, on women, work and demographic issues.

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A technical handbook to assist small-scale producers with alternative production techniques - to help them choose and apply those techniques which are most appropriate to local socio-economic conditions.

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This training manual is the outcome of an ILO regional project on the development and application of appropriate food-processing technologies. During the project, extension workers from four developing Arab countries were trained in techniques of ...

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Management Development Series No. 23 The message for managers to draw from this volume is that international labour standards need not be viewed as constraints or encroachments on managers in the exercise of their functions, but rather as a helpfu...

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Women, Work and Development Series The majority of women around the world work long hours and contribute significantly to production and to family income, although this fact is not generally recognised in attitudes and policies or reflected in off...

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One of the most remarkable structural changes which took place in the world economy in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s is undoubtedly the growth of export processing zones (EPZs) in the developing countries and areas: employment in these...

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In many developing countries wood harvesting with hand tools continues on a large scale. With the shift of emphasis towards trees grown by rural people rather than forestry enterprises, it will gain in importance in the years to come. This trainin...

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International comparisons of statutory provisions and standards on limitations of weights at the workplace are difficult to obtain. Information on these subjects may be of great interest to government departments and to employers' and workers' org...

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