Monitoring international labor standards : techniques and sources of information / Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Policy and Global Affairs Division.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Center for Education.

National Research Council (U.S.). Policy and Global Affairs.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation, International.

Labor policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Research Council (TM)s Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the committee (TM)s work is in two parts "this report and a database structure. Together, they offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive review of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.

Contents:

Official and nongovernmental sources of information

Information from nongovernmental labor monitoring systems

Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining

Forced or compulsory labor

Child labor

Discrimination

Acceptable conditions of work

Human capital and international labor standards compliance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610176489

9780309166355

0309166357

9781280176487

1280176482

9780309529747

0309529743

OCLC:

56138530