Link collection - A Guide to Africa on the Internet

Labour

• The African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety

  The periodical is targeted at 21 African countries and published by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health that supports the global occupational health strategies of the International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

  
  http://www.ttl.fi/

• The International Labour Organization (ILO)

  ILO, a UN specialized agency, seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. Online information resources such as full text documents and labour statistics.

  
  http://www.ilo.org/

• Labour News from Africa

  Labour News from Africa provided by LabourStart. Also country specific information. 

  
  http://www.labourstart.org/

• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

  A confederation of national trade union centres, each of which links together the trade unions of that particular country. AFRO is the major regional organisation of Africa.

  
  http://www.icftu.org/

• Decent Work - ILO, International Labour Organization

  An ILO project that focuses on people working within the informal sector.

  
  http://www.ilo.org/

• allAfrica.com: Labour

  allAfrica.com news service on African labour news.

  
  http://allafrica.com/

• UNI-Africa Global Union

  A regional organisation of Union Network International (UNI) that represents members from 187 unions in 45 countries. It is the largest international grouping of individual trade unions.

  
  http://www.uniglobalunion.org/

• Fafo

  A Norwegian institute that consists of the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research and the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. It develops and disseminates knowledge about changes in living and working conditions, societal participation, democracy and development in a range of social and economic settings.

  
  http://fafo.no/

• International programme on the elimination of child labour (IPEC) - Africa

  IPEC's work to eliminate child labour is an important facet of the ILO's Decent Work Agenda. Offers child labour statistics.

  
  http://www.ilo.org/

• African Labour History 1900-1999, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands

  The collection consists mainly of journals, reprints, papers, press clippings, printed and photocopied documents. Documents have been arranged by theme or subject according to an existing handwritten list.

  
  http://www.iisg.nl/

• The Labour Research Service (LRS)

  Labour service organisation specialised in research, dialogue-building and development, focusing on the trade union movement and its role in society.

  
  http://www.lrs.org.za/