Shirl is taking the week off (very well deserved) from Resource of the Week this time around. Of course, she is continuing to post an amazing amount of new content on ResourceShelf’s sister site, DocuTicker.
This week’s Resource of the Week comes from RS Contributing Editor, librarian, and compiler of the IWS Documented News Service weblog, Stuart Basefsky. It’s a
reprint (with Stuart’s permission of course; thanks S.B.) of a recent IWS post that offers a great +overview of the many databases offered by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Resource of the Week
A Review of International Labor Organization Databases Accessible on the Web
by Stuart Basefsky, MLIS
Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University
Director, IWS News Bureau, Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)
Contributing Editor, ResourceShelf
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)
+ Labour Legislation
- 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. Outside the ILO: 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
- 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, socia 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)
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