Unemployment and Female Labour A Study of Labour Supply in Kingston,
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Guy Standing is a senior economist in the International Labour Office where he has been working since leaving the University of Cambridge with a PhD in economics in 1975. His previous books include Labour Force Participation and Development and (with Richard Szal) Poverty and Basic Needs: Evidence from Guyana and the Philippines. He has also published articles on unemployment, labour supply, rural-urban migration and state policies on migration. His current work is concerned with migration and the process of proletarianisation.
The World Employment Programme (WEP) was launched by the International Labour Organisation in 1969, as the ILO's main contribution to the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. The means of action adopted by the WEP have included the following: short-term high-level advisory missions; longer-term national or regional employment teams; and a wide-ranging research programme. Through these activities the ILO has been able to help national decision-makers to reshape their policies and plans with the aim of eradicating mass poverty and unemployment. A landmark in the development of the WEP was the World Employment Conference of 1976, which proclaimed inter alia that "strategies and national development plans should include as a priority objective the promotion of employment and the satisfaction of the basic needs of each country's population". The Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the Conference have become the cornerstone of WEP technical assistance and research activities during the closing years of the Second Development Decade. This publication is the outcome of a WEP project
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UNEMPLOYMENT AND FEMALE LABOUR A Study of Labour Supply in Kingston, Jamaica
Guy Standing
A study prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World Employment Programme with the financial support of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities
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First published 1981 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-06150-1
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