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Jobs the path to recovery. How employment is central to ending the global crisis

Document number
2235
Date
2009
Title
Jobs the path to recovery. How employment is central to ending the global crisis
Author/publisher
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
This report sets out the impact of the crisis on labour and on economic growth, summarises trade union efforts to fight the crisis, and a detailed trade union strategy on how to beat it. International government action is vital to bring this deep crisis to an end through promotion of decent work. Alternatives to the polarised, market-driven system that brought about the crisis are needed to end it. That means a real recovery based on decent job creation, proper regulation and more public spending; a recovery in favour of the real economy and those who work in it.
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