Topics covered include background, evaluation, policy, organization and management for labour inspection, sectoral aspects such as child labour, agriculture, non-commercial service sector, construction industry, labour inspection and hazards prevention.
Current challenges brought about by globalization require that labor administrations in Asian countries put into practice well-coordinated and efficient administration systems, including effective labor inspection services. This book sets out the role, functions, and organization of labor administration and inspection, highlighting best practices in these areas in a number of Asian countries. It gives a comprehensive overview of recent changes in Asia and looks at areas with an urgent need for improvement.
"Current challenges brought about by globalization require that labor administrations in Asian countries put into practice well-coordinated and efficient administration systems, including effective labor inspection services. This book sets out the role, functions, and organization of labor administration and inspection, highlighting best practices in these areas in a number of Asian countries. It gives a comprehensive overview of recent changes in Asia and looks at areas with an urgent need for improvement."--Front cover.
This book deals with international labor and employment law in the East Asia Region (EA), particularly dealing with China, South Korea and Japan. It explores and explains the effects of globalization and discusses the role played by international labor law as it affects lawyers, business, labor, labor unions and human resource management, and the labor issues that can arise in dealing in EA trade and investment. The text, and the readings (from area experts), are organized and written to provide the reader with, first, a broad understanding and insight into the global dimensions of the fast-emerging area of labor and employment issues (e.g., global legal standards and their interplay with domestic and foreign laws); and second, to show how these laws and approaches play out in specific EA countries (comparing global approaches with the specific laws of each country on four common agenda items: regulatory administration, workers' rights, trade unions and dispute resolution).
Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation. However, this process is not universal, including in some countries of Asia, where trade unions are closely aligned with the interests of the dominant political party and the state. This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country, full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen. Key questions then considered include the challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in each country, the extent to which these are a result of global or local developments and the actions being taken by trade unions and worker representative bodies to cope with the challenges. This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Keith Thurley, London School of Economics.
This reference book provides a core list of publications in the labour field covering both reference materials and selected ILO publications in English. It covers employment training, labour relations, labour administration, working conditions and environment, social security, promotion of equality and workers' education.
Focusing on public administration activities in the field of national labour policy, this timely book provides detailed analyses of labour administration reforms, innovations and challenges in different countries, including detailed case studies from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US.