"Decent work" as an anti-crisis tool and a chance for sustainable development Cover Image

"Przyzwoite zatrudnienie" jako narzędzie antykryzysowe i szansa na zrównoważony rozwój
"Decent work" as an anti-crisis tool and a chance for sustainable development

Author(s): Marta Sordyl
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: social protection; working conditions; workers’ rights

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to present the concept of decent work and to evaluate the possibility of applying this concept in the practice of developing countries. The author has chosen Latin American countries because some of them have explicitly accepted decent work as a tool to combat the consequences of the crisis and to achieve continuing, balanced growth. In the first part of the article decent work is compared with the concept of flexicurity, employed in the European Union; the second part presents Latin American experiences from the recent crisis, where the appropriate labor market regulations were considered as a means of supporting internal demand and achieving socially accepted income distribution, consistent with stable long-term growth

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 35/2
  • Page Range: 209-237
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish