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Housing Policy in the UK
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 110.00A textbook on UK housing policy covering the issues, policies and management across housing tenures set in a historical and comparative context. This book focuses on: institutional and governance arrangements, economic and demographic change, loss of identity of housing policy, issues of inequality and standards, and the interests involved. more...
Handbook on Optimal Growth 1
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 199.99The problem of efficient or optimal allocation of resources is a fundamental concern of economic analysis. This book provides surveys of significant results of the theory of optimal growth, as well as the techniques of dynamic optimization theory on which they are based. more...
Racial Policies and Practices of Real Estate Brokers
University of Minnesota Press 1969; US$ 75.00Racial Policies and Practices of Real Estate Brokers was first published in 1969. Dr. Helper, a sociologist, reports on a study which takes a close look at one of the basic problems underlying racial discrimination in housing -- the policies and practices of real estate brokers. She has attempted to find out how real estate men themselves regard their... more...
Local Economic Development in Post-crisis Situations
ILO Publications 2004; US$ 34.95Explains why local economic development (LED) is particularly effective in post-crisis situations and provides an overview of the LED process. Sets out a practical methodology for implementing activities at the grassroots level, including supporting business, attracting investment, networking and lobbying, environmental assessment and consideration... more...
Organizing in the Informal Economy
ILO Publications 2004; US$ 5.00Examines features of the municipal waste management sector in South Africa, including the legal and policy context, and describes conditions of work and collective barraging arrangements. Provides an overview of worker and employer organizations and sets out a strategy for organizing waste management workers affected by externalization and informalization... more...
Partnerships for Development
ILO Publications 2004; US$ 5.00Comprises two papers which examine partnerships for development involving local governments, representatives of labour and capital and civil society organizations in the south of Italy. more...
Prevention - A Global Strategy
ILO Publications 2005; US$ 5.00Focuses on the prevention of accidents and ill-health in the construction industry. Considers measures aimed at workers aged 15-24, such as risk education, and issues concerning workers aged 55 and above, including physical strength, movement and posture, and visual and hearing impairment. more...
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health
ILO Publications 2004; US$ 18.00Gives an overview on national occupational safety and health (OSH) programmes and systems as well as on ways of promoting a safety culture. Includes the questionnaire requesting member States to provide their views concerning the scope and content of the possible OSH instrument. Lists relevant ILO Conventions and Recommendations. more...
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health
ILO Publications 2006; US$ 11.95Gives the replies, responses to specific questions and observations, received from governments, employers and workers organizations, concerning the proposed Convention and proposed Recommendation on the promotional framework for occupational safety and health. more...
Recording and Notification of Occupational Accidents and Diseases and ILO List of Occupational Diseases
ILO Publications 2002; US$ 6.75Contains the texts of the proposed Protocol to the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 and the proposed Recommendation concerning the list of occupational diseases and the recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases. more...









