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1 online resource (171 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- List of Boxes -- Box 1.The Mandate of the ILO, as set out in Part XIII of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty -- Box 2. Key PWP design questions identified by ILO in 1935 -- Box 3. Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) -- Box 4. The Kenya Rural Access Road Programme (RARP) -- Box 5. The Kisii Training Centre -- Box 6. The Legacy of the RARP in Kenya -- the Minor Roads Programme, the Roads Maintenance Initiative and the Roads 2000 Maintenance Strategy -- Box 7. Guidelines for the organization of SPWP, 1977 -- Box 8. National training centres |
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Box 9. Mozambique: Post-conflict Employment-intensive Works Programmes (EIWPs), 1980s -- Box 10. The Advisory Support, Information Services and Training (ASIST) Programme -- Box 11. Regional seminars on labour-intensive construction -- Box 12. Ghana Feeder Road and labour-intensive public works programmes -- Box 13. AGETIPE: Executing Agency for Works of Public Interest for Employment -- Box 14. Employment-intensive Investment Programme (EIIP), Cambodia -- Box 15. Complementary programming areas under the EIIP, 1990s -- Box 16. EIIP Disaster Response activities -- Indonesia and Haiti, 2004 |
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Box 17. Timor Leste: Nation building through constructing roads and strengthening local institutions -- Box 18. Towards the right to work: A guidebook for designing innovative public employment programmes -- Box 19. Emergency employment: EIIP work with refugees in the Middle East, 2010s -- Box 20. Inter-Agency Social Protection Assessments (ISPA) Social Protection Public Works Tool -- Box 21. Current EIIP areas of work -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Public works programmes prior to 1919, the foundation of the ILO and the 1920s |
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3. The rise of countercyclical employment promotion in the 1930s and ILO's transnational ambitions -- 4. The Second World War and its immediate aftermath -- 5. Finding a new role in employment promotion -- 6. The WEP and its legacy -- 7. The coming of age of EIIP concepts -- 8. PWPs in the period of neoliberalism and ILO reorientation -- 9. EIIP in the new millennium -- 10. The PWP as the ILO response to global issues in the 2010s: Crisis recovery, social protection, and the global environmental priorities -- 11. Into the ILO's second century -- Afterword |
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Annex 1. Provisions and articles in Recommendation No. 122 relevant to public works promotion -- Annex 2. Economic development, employment and public works in African countries |
| Summary |
This book chronicles the breadth and depth of ILO's engagement in Public Works Programmes (PWPs) over the last century. It describes the journey, the ideas and the innovations that have emerged in a shifting global economic, social and political context. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International Labour Organization.
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International Labour Organization. |
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Public works.
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Public works. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
International Labour Organization, publisher.
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| Added Title |
One hundred years of public works in the ILO |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Office, International Labour 100 Years of Public Works in the ILO Genève 22 : International Labour Organisation (ILO),c2021 |
| ISBN |
9220356074 |
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9789220356074 (electronic book) |
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