Book Description

The World Employment Report 2001 examines the employment challenges and opportunities emerging from the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) around the world. While analysing how new technologies influence the quantity, quality and location of work, the book also looks at where jobs will be lost and created in industrialised and developing countries. In particular, the Report emphasises the importance of education, learning and training, and shows how these factors can help developing countries succeed in the information economy. It also reveals how the digital economy is transforming the way workers' and employers' organisations function, relate to their members and bargain collectively. Up to now, access to ICT remains exclusive. The Report focuses on the growing fear that, if current trends persist, the new technologies will worsen national and global inequalities, especially the wealth gap between the world's rich and poor countries and offers strategies for development and poverty alleviation.