Global Issues The Future and Praxis of Decent Work

The Global Labour Institute (GLI) in the UK is a not-for-profit organisation, established in 2010 in cooperation with the Global Labour Institute in Geneva and the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, New York. GLI works closely with a range of global union federations, national trade unions, development agencies, research institutions and workers’ education organisations. The GLI has specialist international experience in political education, organisation and trade union policy with informal economy workers, union capacity building, and the design and management of international workers ’ education programmes. Decent Work has been the centrepiece of policy for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and many of the institutions of the international trade union movement since 1999, when the ILO Secretary General proposed a primary goal for the ILO in the period of globalisation:...securing decent work for women and men everywhere. It is the most widespread need, shared by people, families and communities in every society, and at all levels of development. Decent work is a global demand today, confronting political and business leadership worldwide. Much of our common future depends on how we meet this challenge (ILO, 1999). The ILO determined four strategic pillars of the Decent Work Agenda: full and productiv