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Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
ILO Publications 2008; US$ 25.00The handbook is a tool for training. It seeks both to inform labour inspectors of the facts and trends of modern forced labour and the challenges before them, and to promote discussion as to how labour inspectorates worldwide could be harnessed more effectively to global efforts against forced labour and trafficking. more...
Forced Labor
ILO Publications 2009; US$ 22.50PRAISE FOR FORCED LABOR 'Excellent. . . . This state-of-the-art volume provides a first-rate analysis of the dynamics leading to the occurrence of forced labour, its global distribution,and different types of policy responses.' -Jens Lerche, SOAS, University of London. Two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, at least... more...
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 32.95In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program?the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind?nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens... more...
Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
ILO Publications 2005; US$ 5.00Estimates the global magnitude of forced labour profits in order to throw light on the scale of this economic exploitation. more...
Nobodies
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren?t paid for their labor?people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies , award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, immigration fraud, and sleights... more...
A Future for the Excluded
Zed Books 2000; US$ 36.95Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop and capacitation in highly diverse social settings.... more...
Apprenticeships
Kogan Page 2012; US$ 19.95Apprenticeships is a complete guide containing frequently asked questions from students, parents and job-seekers. It's packed with quotations, case studies, useful advice, practical checklists, self-assessment questionnaires and also includes a list of useful websites and organisations. more...
United we Serve
Brookings Institution Press 2003; US$ 22.95Public rhetoric in the USA has always laid heavy stress on the obligations of citizenship. Bill Clinton praised the idea of service as does George W. Bush. This volume gathers voices on civic life and civic obligation to explore the idea of national service as it relates to citizenship. more...
The Means to Grow Up
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 48.95In The Means to Grow Up , Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"?a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences under the guidance of skilled professionals. Employing... more...









