The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer and Marcel van der Linden

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals is an essential reference for understanding the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and its promotion of fair conditions, rights at work and employment opportunities for all. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035300891
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781035300907/9781035300907.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the challenges of decent work and the Sustainable Development Goals , pp 1-24

Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer and Marcel van der Linden

Ch 2 Decent work’s place among the SDGs: contribution by the International Labour Organization , pp 26-38

Eva Senghaas-Knobloch

Ch 3 The genesis of the Decent Work Agenda , pp 39-51

Tânia Ferraro

Ch 4 Unravelling capitalist structuring conditions: limits of the Decent Work Agenda , pp 52-62

Andreas Bieler

Ch 5 Competing conceptualizations of decent work: measurement and policy coherence challenges , pp 63-75

Erica Di Ruggiero

Ch 6 Measuring decent work , pp 76-88

Léa Renard and Bénédicte Zimmermann

Ch 7 The evolution of standard work , pp 90-103

Paul Schoukens, Eleni De Becker and Charlotte Bruynseraede

Ch 8 The workplace , pp 104-115

Narayan Prasad and Nausheen Nizami

Ch 9 Wages: functions, types, inequalities , pp 116-127

Maarten van Klaveren

Ch 10 Work without protection: informal work , pp 128-138

Jan Breman and Marcel van der Linden

Ch 11 Unemployment – underemployment , pp 139-151

Gerhard Bosch

Ch 12 Unfree labour within and beyond the Decent Work Agenda , pp 152-162

Anne Lisa Carstensen

Ch 13 Reproductive work against productivism from the Decent Work Agenda to the SDGs , pp 163-174

Alessandra Mezzadri

Ch 14 Valuing domestic labour: the changing meanings of ‘housework’ under capitalism , pp 175-186

Indu Agnihotri

Ch 15 Women workers , pp 188-199

Madhumita Dutta and Sirisha C. Naidu

Ch 16 Migrant workers , pp 200-212

Helen Schwenken

Ch 17 Child workers , pp 213-224

Ben White

Ch 18 Africa: young people between insecurity and the aspiration for decent jobs , pp 225-235

Babacar Fall

Ch 19 People with disabilities , pp 236-246

Felix Welti

Ch 20 Challenges of decent work for smallholders and agricultural workers: reflections on the Global South , pp 247-258

Praveen Jha

Ch 21 Three windows on decent work: theories of labour relations , pp 260-273

Chris Tilly

Ch 22 Uneven and combined development and decent work , pp 274-284

Ronaldo Munck

Ch 23 International labour migration and decent work , pp 285-298

Immanuel Ness

Ch 24 Labour, social upgrading and indecent work in global value chains , pp 299-311

Kristoffer Marslev and Cornelia Staritz

Ch 25 Navigating globalization: examining the ILO’s efforts to promote decent work , pp 313-324

Faradj Koliev

Ch 26 The ILO and the promotion of social dialogue at the global and national level , pp 325-335

Yvonne Rueckert

Ch 27 The elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work: ILO Convention No. 190 , pp 336-345

Reingard Zimmer

Ch 28 Securing compliance with standards of occupational health and safety: labour inspection and its challenges , pp 346-357

David Walters

Ch 29 Trade agreements and decent work , pp 358-369

Christoph Scherrer

Ch 30 Corporate due diligence in global value chains , pp 370-381

Christian Scheper

Ch 31 The efficacy of market-driven voluntary governance mechanisms for decent work , pp 382-395

Tim Connor, Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall

Ch 32 Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda? , pp 396-411

Roland Erne, Mark Anner, Michele Ford, Tamara Kay and Vincenzo Maccarrone

Ch 33 Trade unions and decent work , pp 413-424

Greg Patmore

Ch 34 Trade unions as organised forms of labour movements: why this matters in liberal democracies , pp 425-437

Peter Fairbrother and Karen Douglas

Ch 35 Strikes and decent work , pp 438-447

Jörg Nowak

Ch 36 Collective representation of precarious workers: what has the Decent Work Agenda got to do with it? , pp 448-460

Edlira Xhafa and Melisa R. Serrano

Ch 37 Worker organizing in the Global South: an experimental trend , pp 461-472

Lynford Dor and Edward Webster

Ch 38 Transnational regulation of decent work through Global Framework Agreements: a collective instrument of worker voice , pp 473-486

Michael Fichter

Ch 39 The power of boycotts , pp 487-498

Allyson P. Brantley

Ch 40 The role of labour and nature within just transition strategies , pp 500-513

Nora Räthzel and Dimitris Stevis

Ch 41 Work health and safety, adaptation, and climate change , pp 514-525

Elizabeth Humphrys

Ch 42 Degrowth and decent work , pp 526-537

Birte Strunk

Ch 43 Future of work and global trends: reframing the debate in an age of state capitalism and systemic competition , pp 538-550

Frederick Harry Pitts and Huw Thomas

Ch 44 The technopolitics of decent digital work , pp 551-561

Simon Schaupp

Ch 45 Digital labour platforms and their contribution to development outcomes , pp 562-575

Uma Rani, Rishabh Kumar Dhir and Nora Gobel

Ch 46 Decent work and welfare states: two sides of the same coin? , pp 577-603

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Leonid Shvyrev and Jakub Sowula

Ch 47 Social protection floors as a knowledge object: examining their place within the Decent Work and Sustainable Development Agenda , pp 604-614

John Berten and Alexandra Kaasch

Ch 48 Universal versus employment-based social protection? , pp 615-626

Gabriele Koehler

Ch 49 Size matters: universal basic income as a strategy for decent work , pp 627-637

Ruth Castel-Branco and Nicolas Pons-Vignon

Ch 50 No future for decent work without the right to strike , pp 639-649

Frank Hoffer

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eebook:21934

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com
sales@e-elgar.co.uk

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla (darrel@e-elgar.co.uk).