Tuesday, June 20, 2006
[IWS] Special Edition: ILO DATABASES
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO Databases
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm
ILO databases are available in the following subject areas and nearly all of them are free and unrestricted.
Country and regional information
Labour statistics
Occupational safety
Social security
Terminology
Vocational training and rehabilitation [Disabilities]
World of work
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO Databases
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm
ILO databases are available in the following subject areas and nearly all of them are free and unrestricted.
Country and regional information
- GLOBAL COMPACT (Country Information)
- http://www.unglobalcompact.org/
- Country information system on human rights, labour standards, and environmental protection. (Maintained by the United Nations Global Compact Network with the participation of the ILO and UNEP)
- APPLIS
- http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/appl/index.cfm?lang=EN
- A database on the application of international labour standards
- Conditions of Work and Employment database
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/database/index.htm
- Includes comprehensive legal information from countries around the world. Covers maternity protection, minimum wages, working time.
- Corenit
- http://www.oit.org.pe/corenit/
- Base de datos del Control Regular de Normas (in Spanish)
- e.quality@work
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/index.htm
- compilation of basic information on gender equality laws, policies and programmes, including international labour standards as well as national legislation, policies, practices and institutional arrangements introduced by governments, trade unions and public and private sector enterprises
- ILOLEX
- http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/index.htm
- A database on international labour standards containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations
- Quick database search of:
- ILO Conventions
- http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm
- and
- ILO Recommendations
- http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/recdisp1.htm
- NATLEX
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home?p_lang=en
- A database of national labour law
- QVILIS
- http://www.oit.org.pe/qvilis_world/index.php
- A database on complaints and violatons of trade union rights
- TRIBLEX
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/triblex/triblex_browse.home
- Thematic analysis of the case law of the ILO Administrative Tribunal
Labour statistics
- KILM
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/kilm/index.htm
- Key Indicators of the Labour Market
- LABORSTA
- http://laborsta.ilo.org/
- The labour statistics database operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics
- ILM
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/ilmdb/ilmdb.htm
- International Labour Migration Database
Occupational safety
- CISDOC
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/cisdoc/index_html?p_lang=e
- Occupational safety and health, safety standards, chemical and physical hazards
- CIS Network
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/dbs.htm
- CIS Centres and other institutions of occupational health and safety
- ICSC
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/index.htm
- database for finding international chemical safety cards
- Substance Abuse and Tobacco in the Workplace Database
- http://www.ccsa.ca/ilo/ilotop.htm
- Provides key information on issues related to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in the workplace.
Social security
- Social Security Worldwide (SSW)
- http://www.issa.int/ssw
- [access restricted]
- Covers six different databases on social protection: Scheme Description, Complementary and Private Pensions, Reforms, Legislation, Bibliography and Thesaurus. Produced by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) with the support of the ILO. ILO staff at HQ: available through the ISSA Intranet: http://issa.intranet/ssw. Outside the ILO: www.issa.int/ssw. A userid and a password are needed; for information about access contact: issadoc@ilo.org For alternative, but reliable information source, see --
- Social Security Programs Throughout The World
- http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/index.html
Terminology
- ILOTERM
- http://www.ilo.org/iloterm/
- An invaluable working tool for linguists, provides English, French, Spanish and German equivalents of terms in the social and labour fields
Vocational training and rehabilitation [Disabilities]
- INFOR
- http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/sid/index.htm
- Bibliographic database of the Inter-American Vocational Training Research and Documentation Centre (CINTERFOR)
- In Spanish at
- http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/spanish/region/ampro/cinterfor/sid/index.htm
- GLADNET
- http://www.gladnet.org/
- InfoBase Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training (produced with the collaboration of the ILO)
- The publications of the GLADNET Infobase are now held by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Please click the link below to search the GLADNET collection of publications in the Catherwood Library's Digital Commons online repository.
- Search GLADNET Collection in DigitalCommons@ILR at
- http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/gladnetcollect/
World of work
- ASISTDOC
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/asist/asistdocs.home
- A bibliographic database on labour-based technology
- BASI
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/multi/basi.htm
- Business and Social Initiatives database
- BDS
- http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/bdssearch.home?
- Business Development Service database
- e.quality@work
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/main.htm
- compilation of basic information on gender equality laws, policies and programmes, including international labour standards as well as national legislation, policies, practices and institutional arrangements introduced by governments, trade unions and public and private sector enterprises
- ILO Photo Gallery
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/media/mediasearch.home?p_lang=en
- an ever-increasing collection of photos available to the public free of charge.
- ILO Publications Website
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/intro/index.htm
- a comprehensive selection of new and recent ILO publications in the areas of labour, employment, social protection, women at work, occupational safety and health, child labour, management and training, labour statistics and more.
- Informal Economy Resource Database
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/dwresources/iebrowse.home
- covers ILO activities and research related to the informal economy and tools which are relevant for this area.
- LABORAL
- http://www.oit.org.pe/spanish/260ameri/info/biblio/isis/frquery.html
- the bibliographic database operated by the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Labordoc
- http://labordoc.ilo.org/
- The ILO's largest bibliographic database; provides international coverage of labour topics including employment, labour relations, labour law, working conditions, vocational training, social security, occupational safety and health, women workers, child labour, migrant workers, economic and social rights and all labour-related aspects of social and economic development.
- Labour force surveys
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurvey/lfsurvey.home
- Labour Force Survey is a standard survey of work-related statistics. The following countries and territories make their Labour Force Surveys available online...
- Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work
- http://www.ilo.org/dyn/dwresources/dwbrowse.home
- This Resource Database contains more than 200 tools and resources that directly or indirectly focus on poverty from a macro-level perspective and/or from a local development perspective within the ILO's decent work framework.
- SI-PROMICRO
- http://www.sipromicro.com/index.php
- information and documentation on microenterprises in Central America (produced with the collaboration of the ILO) (in Spanish)
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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