Labour Rights in Crisis

Innovatively linking actual implementation to ratification of International Labour Office (ILO) Core Conventions, the author develops a new method and uses unexploited data from the ILO's supervisory system to rate the achievement of basic human rights in the world of work - freedom of association and freedom from forced labour, child labour and discrimination - for 159 countries during the period 1985-2003. It will appeal to the human and labour rights communities as well as to social scientists interested in indicators or international relations.

W.R.BÖHNING is a Political Scientist educated at the Free University of Berlin. He first made his name on international migration questions at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and the International Labour Office, before covering ILO's technical co-operation in South-East Asia and workers' basic rights globally. He is now a Consultant in Geneva, Switzerland.