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Year: 2010
Author: Tanya Karina A. Lat
Title: The Trade Advocate’s Manual: Navigating Philippine Trade Policy
Format: Book
Pages: 124
A nation’s trade and economic policies determine to a large extent whether its people will realise full human development and enjoy fundamental human rights and freedoms. However, trade policymaking in the Philippines and most of the world remained largely in the hands of government bureaucrats and technocrats, with very little people’s participation and consultation. This manual aims to empower ‘ordinary’ Filipinos to meaningfully participate in discussions on trade policy. By engaging the Philippine government through national processes ad mechanism, the Filipino people may ultimately be able to hold their government directly accountable for its actions and put in place trade and economic policies that affirm the right of all Filipinos to full human development. This manual was made possible through the support of LEARN, FES and Global Network Asia.

Year: 2006
Title: Respect and Rights: Protection for Domestic/Household Workers: Report of the International Conference held in Amsterdam, 8 – 10 November 2006
Format: Conference report
Pages: 117
This book is the result of an action conference held in 2006 in Amsterdam at the headquarters of the FNV trade union federation of the Netherlands. The participants were from a wide range of domestic/household workers organisations, trade unions and support NGOs worldwide. They came up with recommendations as part of the global effort to achieve better protection for domestic/household workers. It includes suggestions for action, actions around the world, practical experiences around the world, ILO proposals and migrant and child domestic workers. An essential tool for anyone working towards the recognition of domestic workers’ rights.

Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

The book is published by Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) in partnership with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Joel F. Ariate Jr., Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ma. Glenda S. Lopez Wui, Ronald C. Molmisa, and Sharon M. Quinsaat are the contributors to the volume.

Year: 2010
Author: Renana Jhabwala, Sapna Desai and Jignasa Dave
Title: Empowering Women in an Insecure World: Joining SEWA Makes a Difference
Format: Book
Pages: 88
This book is based on the findings of the Gujarat Social Income Survey (GSIS), a study conducted by SEWA with Dr Guy Standing, Dr Jeemol Unni and Dr Uma Rani. The GSIS explored the various sources of income and support that includes private investments, employer benefits, community transfers and state benefits. Since 20% of the households sampled were SEWA members, the impact of joining SEWA could be measured. The survey revealed the insecure lives of workers in Gujarat, except for the minority in salaried employment. However, joining SEWA made a measurable difference to women’s lives.

Year: 2010
Author: Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabwala and Uma Rani
Title: Social Income and Insecurity: a Study in Gujarat
Format: Book
Pages: 232
This book maps the level and pattern of social income drawing on the Gujarat Social Income Survey (GSIS) conducted in Gujarat, India, in 2007/8. The data was experimental, providing proxy measures of several components of social income, and showed how some forms of income are distributed heavily on favour of those with high money incomes and certain other forms are less unequally distributed. The evidence on poverty and living conditions suggest that social development has been lagging. This survey provided a means of studying how macro-economic and political change affects the ability of people of diverse backgrounds to cope with the vagaries of life.

Year: 2005
Author: Anna-Lena Lodenius (ed)
Title: Global Respect: A basic Course on Globalisation and Human Rights
Format: Book
Pages: 251
Global respect is a course about globalisation. Topics covered include power, democracy, human rights, poverty, wealth, trade, human rights and the labour movement. The course has been available on the internet for some time and has now been published in a printed version. Images, graphics, a discussion forum and other features are available on their website at www.studiecirkel.com. In the book, complicated issues are presented in a simple way, but not all the answers are presented. The idea is to use the book as a starting point. It is particularly useful for study circles. Global Respect is run by the Olaf Palme International Center.

Year: 2009
Author: Cornelia Hildebrandt and Birgit Daiber (eds)
Title: The Left in Europe: Political Parties and Party Alliances between Norway and Turkey
Format: Book
Pages: 220
The sub-title of the book is misleading as the book does not only cover the situation of the Left in Norway and Turkey, but the whole of Europe. The book consists of contributions from a range of authors, who are mostly academics and activists. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation worked closely with its partners Transform! Europe and the parliamentary group of the Left in the European Parliament on a long term project on the non-social democratic Left in Europe. Within this framework the country reports collected in this book constitutes a snapshot and the basis for the elaboration of a joint research programme. Issues discussed are the political parties of the Left, socials movements and trade unions; the intention is to give the reader an overview of the history and current situation of left-wing parties in Europe.

Year: 2009
Author: Pamhidzai H. Bamu and Shane Godfrey
Title: An Analysis of Collective Bargaining Arrangements in the Construction Industry
Format: Book
Pages: 63
This report was commissioned by the Labour Research Service on behalf of the Building & Wood Workers’ International (BWI). The main objective of this report is to provide a map of the bargaining arrangements in the construction sector in South Africa. The second objective in to identify the main challenges confronting collective bargaining in the sector, including low levels of union organisation. The third objective is to make recommendations as to how the strengthen union organisation and collective bargaining in the industry, in order to assist unions to develop effective strategies. This includes recommendations to government regarding the appropriate labour market measures to adopt for the sector.