World Labour Report 2000: Income Security and Social Protection in a Changing World

An important, flagship study, the World Labour Report 2000 examines the changing context in which women and men are trying to achieve income security for themselves and their families. Drawing from detailed, worldwide data, this new edition assesses the vital role played by social protection in supporting, supplementing and replacing market incomes. In the process it reavaluates the relationship between social protection and the economy, and addresses the challenge of finding the most effective means to bring social protection to themajority who will go without.