Provides information on the situation in Barbados and Jamaica as it relates to employment, working conditions and labour relations in offshore data service enterprises, against the background of the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.

The paper focuses on the impact of international core labour standards on economic growth. In a first step, we build a novel indicator, using correspondence analysis. The paper focuses on the four core labour standards recognized in the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights...

There is a protracted stalemate between rich (the North) and poor (the South) countries over the question of minimum labour standards in developing economies. This paper is a sequel to Singh and Zammit (2000). It considers afresh key issues in the controversy. While fully recognizing the moral,...

In recent years a few advanced countries have been advocating multilateral rules permitting punitive trade measures to be taken against countries not upholding core labour standards. The mainly developing target countries have rebutted these initiatives which they argue are protectionist, in...

В статье исследуется воздействие информационно-технологической революции на сдвиги в социальной структуре современного российского общества. Выявляются...