Decent work: Concept and indicators. Unless SDG 8 takes into account unpaid work that continues to be largely performed by women, it cannot address the decent work agenda in a comprehensive and gendered way. aware of decent work who can provide advice to colleagues. This understanding led to a more complex sense of direction. This article is an abridged and updated version of Decent work: Concepts, models and indicators, Discussion Paper No. The overarching objective is to gain greater understanding of the changes in the world of work and to discuss effective policy responses to shape the future of work with decent work for all. Decent work and poverty eradication 5 Ergon Associates, January 2010 decent work in the RMG sector is to be accelerated. With these targets in mind, the goal is to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030. The creation of quality jobs will remain a major challenge for almost all economies well beyond 2015. Decent work, a multifaceted conception, assists in revealing the interdependence of measures needed to secure human dignity across the course of working lives. In developing countries, the middle class now makes up more than 34 percent of total employment – a number that has almost tripled between 1991 and 2015. A simplified logic model was developed. Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth. They wanted to come up with what a long-term alternative could really look like, on the ground, and as a movement. Encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation are key to this, as are effective measures to eradicate forced labour, slavery and human trafficking. Twenty years ago, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched a new strategy, the Decent Work Agenda, to ensure human-oriented development in the globalization of working life and to provide an effective response to the challenges of globalization. 139, published by the International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva, 2002). It takes as the starting point the Economic and Social Council resolutions on mainstreaming decent work while recognizing that there are Conceptual framework 15. There is increasing debate over LWs due to growing inequality, rising living costs and welfare reform but this remains largely framed by the econometric cost-benefit parameters that apply to minimum wage regulation. A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments and under-consumption lead to an erosion of the basic social contract underlying democratic societies: that all must share in progress. 205 on Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience (2017), the only international normative framework providing guidance for addressing world-of-work issues in response to crisis situations, including health pandemics, armed conflict, natural disaster, environmental … Dharam GHAI *Former Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. The installation of a new democratic government committed to reviewing the minimum wage and labour law provides a more positive political environment for action on these issues. A “living” wage (LW) is conventionally defined as enabling meaningful participation in society above subsistence through, for example, recreation, supporting a family, and savings. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focuses on raising awareness about ILO’s Recommendation No. Work and jobs need to be created on a massive scale and they need to build wealth locally and keep it there. It identifies the concept of a green economy as one of the pathways to sustainable development and stresses that its goal must be social inclusion and the creation of employment and decent work for all: ... decent work for all, while maintaining the healthy functioning of … Financial and human resources being set aside for this would be a positive indicator. 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