Chapter 8: Decent Work

Question 1

What is Decent Work?

Answer 1

-Fair Income: Having enough money to pay bills with leftover for savings

-Security in the workplace: physical/mental health not at risk

• Social protection for families: safe childcare options so parents can go to work

Question 2

5 challenges to decent work

Answer 2

-Unemployment (lack of jobs): many countries have high unemployment rates with no ways to generate jobs. also includes unemployment, where there are jobs but do not provide proper support

-lack of social protection: lack of sick pay, childcare, pension, disability pay

-discrimination: in formal and informal sectors, example gender gaps in STEM (formal) and Fisheries (informal)

-Child Labour: complex and hard to define, robs children of childhoods and can be dangerous

-Modern Slavery: forced labour and marriage to pay off debts

Question 3

3 strategies to achieving decent work

Answer 3

-Invest in and expand social protection

-fair and effective migration governance

-embrace green growth

Question 4

Describe strategies of social protection

Answer 4

-unemployment protection
-cash transfer programs
-public employment programs
-payments for ecosystem services
-make employment a fundamental right

Question 5

what is green growth?

Answer 5

Green growth: Cannot indefinitely grow. Need to find ways to be sustainable and economically viable. Growth is only about producing/consuming more. Need for critical look at how to grow sustainably.