Towards full and decent employment
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Towards full and decent employment
Orient Longman , Zed Books , Third World Network, 2007
- : hbk, Zed Books
- : pbk, Zed Books
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"Published in association with the United Nations"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
While the international community has made a commitment to achieve full employment and decent work for all, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends such as growing unemployment and underemployment, the phenomenon of 'jobless growth', the increasing 'casualization' of employment relations, the promotion of labour flexibility at the expense of welfare security, de-industrialization and the continued decline of peasant agriculture.
Revisiting some familiar terrain with new lenses, this ground-breaking book seeks fresh solutions. Employment creation is seen as the key link in ensuring that economic growth contributes to poverty reduction, with management of technological change playing a crucial role. While the trend towards greater labour flexibility seems irresistible, recent experience provides some options for also ensuring decent work and economic security. This book illustrates how alternative macroeconomic policy priorities can alleviate the employment problems exacerbated by financial liberalization. It explores new approaches to social security, the informal economy, the welfare state and rural employment in Africa.
Table of Contents
1. Technology and Employment in an Open Underdeveloped Economy - Prabhat Patnaik
2. Growth, Employment and Poverty: An Analysis of the Vital Nexus Based on Some Recent UNDP and ILO/SIDA Studies - Azizur Rahman Khan
3. Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work - Gerry Rodgers
4. Employment and Decent Work in the Era of Flexicurity - Robert Boyer
5. Central Banks As Agents of Employment Creation - Gerald Epstein
6. Financial Openness and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies - Rolph van der Hoeven and Malte Lubker
7. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment - Martha Alter Chen
8. Modernizing the Informal Economy - Victor Tokman
9. Changing the paradigm in social security: From fiscal burden to investing in people - Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer and John Woodall
10. Transforming the Developmental Welfare States in East Asia - Huck-Ju Kwon
11. Generating Rural Employment in Africa to Fight Poverty - Janvier Desire Nkurunziza
12. On the Need for Providing Employment Guarantee - Prabhat Patnaik
13. Macroeconomic policy and employment generation - Michael Piore
14. Generating Employment - Anis Ahmad Dani
15. Macroeconomic Policy and Employment Generation: Gender Dimensions - Diane Elson
16. Protecting Workers, Creating Jobs: Rethinking Social Protection in Developing Countries - Carmen Pages
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