Title -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1 Preliminary comments -- Chapter 2 The protection of fundamental principles and rights at work in national constitutions -- Freedom of association and collective bargaining -- Forced labour -- Child labour -- Equality, non-discrimination and equal remuneration -- Chapter 3 Other relevant international instruments -- Recognition of fundamental principles and rights at work in other universal and regional instruments -- The objective of coherence in the supervision of the international and regional obligations of States in relation to fundamental principles and rights at work -- Part II. Freedom of association and collective bargaining -- Chapter 1 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) -- Introduction -- Scope of the Convention and methods of application -- General principle and authorized exceptions -- Methods of application -- Main difficulties concerning the scope of application -- Thematic issues -- Right of workers and employers to establish and to join organizations of their own choosing -- Right of workers' and employers' organizations to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom and to organize their administration and activities -- Dissolution and suspension of organizations by administrative authority -- Right of organizations to establish federations and confederations and to affiliate with international organizations -- Chapter 2 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) -- Introduction -- Scope of the Convention and methods of application -- General principle and authorized exceptions -- Methods of application -- Difficulties concerning the scope of application -- Thematic issues.

Protection against acts of anti-union discrimination and of interference -- Promotion of collective bargaining -- Part III. Forced labour -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 Scope of the Conventions and methods of application -- Scope -- Chapter 3 Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) -- Definition of forced or compulsory labour -- Exceptions from the definition of forced labour -- Imposition of labour for public works or services and other specified purposes -- National service obligations -- Restrictions on the freedom of workers to terminate employment -- Work of prisoners for private companies -- Obligation to perform overtime work under threat of a penalty -- Slavery, slavery-like practices and other illegal forms of compulsion to work: Imposition of forced labour on workers in most vulnerable groups -- Trafficking in persons -- Chapter 4 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105 -- Scope of Convention No. 105 in relation to Convention No. 29 -- Imposition of sanctions involving compulsory labour for non-compliance with restrictions on civil rights and political freedoms -- Imposition of forced or compulsory labour for purposes of economic development -- Violations of labour discipline punishable with sanctions involving compulsory labour -- Sanctions involving compulsory labour as a punishment for having participated in strikes -- Imposition of forced or compulsory labour as a means of racial, social, national or religious discrimination -- Chapter 5 Law enforcement -- Penal sanctions -- Law enforcement bodies -- Protection of victims -- Part IV. Elimination of child labour -- Chapter 1 Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) -- Introduction -- Scope of the Convention and methods of application -- Thematic issues -- Enforcement and impact -- Chapter 2 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

Introduction -- Scope and methods of application -- Thematic issues -- Part V. Equality, non-discrimination and equal remuneration -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) -- Introduction -- Scope of the Convention and methods of application -- Thematic issues -- Chapter 3 Equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation (Convention No. 111) -- Introduction -- Scope of the Convention and methods of application -- Thematic issues -- Chapter 4 Monitoring and enforcement relating to Conventions Nos 100 and 111 -- The labour inspectorate -- Specialized bodies -- Courts and tribunals -- Access to procedures and remedies -- Statistics -- Part VI. Obstacles to ratification and technical assistance -- Chapter 1 Freedom of association and collective bargaining -- Obstacles to ratification and future prospects -- Technical assistance -- Chapter 2 Elimination of forced labour -- Obstacles to ratification and future prospects -- Chapter 3 Elimination of child labour -- Obstacles to ratification and future prospects -- Technical assistance -- Chapter 4 Equality of opportunity and treatment -- Obstacles to ratification and future prospects -- Technical assistance -- Part VII. Conclusions -- Appendix List of ratifications of fundamental Conventions and of reports received pursuant to Article 19 -- List of boxes -- Freedom of association, gender equality and non-discrimination -- Employers' group -- Workers' group -- ILO response to forced labour in Myanmar -- Role of the social partners -- Global picture: Incidence of child labour in the world -- Defining the worst forms of child labour - Article 3 of Convention No. 182 -- The ILO response to the trafficking of children for use as camel jockeys in Qatar -- ILO response to forced labour and under-age recruitment in Myanmar -- Sweden - Wage mapping.

General observation concerning Convention No. 100.