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Twenty Free Articles on Workers’ Issues You Can Read This Labor Day Weekend (and Beyond)

The University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development (UP CIDS) has compiled twenty labor-related articles that can be downloaded for free. The articles, taken from various UP CIDS publications over the years, including monographs, policy briefs, discussion papers, and journal articles, identify the many challenges that workers face, and discuss ways on how to address each one.

Below is a list of the articles. Please click on the titles to download the PDFs.

Putting Transport Workers and Commuters First: The Route to Just Transition in Public Transport Modernization

Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Year Published: 2023
Authors: Rafael Dimalanta • Jan Marvi Atienza • Edrich Samonte


An Exploratory Network Analysis of the Translation Industry in the Philippines: Perspectives from Translators in the Academe

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2024
Authors: Annette Balaoing Pelkmans


The Jobs Challenge for the BARMM

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2024
Authors: Annete Balaoing Pelkmans


Using Marx to Understand the Filipino Working Class

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2023
Authors: Benjamin Velasco


Impact of COVID-19 on Education Workers and Union Responses

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2022
Authors: Josephine E. Prudente and Benjamin B. Velasco


Pasadang Pandemic: Pasadang Pandemic – The Impact of COVID-19 on Transport Workers

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2022
Authors: Mikhail Ambrose Aggabao, Erik Dane Belarmino, and Benjamin Velasco


Dealing with the Deficit of Primary Healthcare Workers

Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Year Published: 2022
Authors: Ryan Joseph Martinez and Benjamin Velasco


COVID-19-Related Discrimination of Workers in the Mactan Export Processing Zone during the Pandemic

Type of Publication: Monograph
Year Published: 2022
Author: Benjamin Velasco and Judy Ann C. Miranda


Informal Labor Carries the Brunt of a COVID-19–induced Economic Recession: The Need for Stronger Transition Policies to Formality

Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Year Published: 2022
Author: Emily Christi Cabegin


Adopting Miller’s First Principles for Online Food Delivery Platforms’ Labor Regulation in the Philippines

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2021
Author: Jayvy R. Gamboa


Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise (MSME) Sector Financing: Issues and Challenges

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2021
Author: Ma. Victoria R. Raquiza


Beyond Business as Usual: Philippine Labor Outmigration and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2021
Author: Jorge V. Tigno


The Need to Increase Supply of Medical Workers and Build Telemedicine Infrastructure to Prepare for Future Public Health Crises

Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Year Published: 2020
Author: Geoffrey Ducanes and Sarah Lynne Daway-Ducanes


Social Protection for All Filipinos: Can the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 Deliver?

Type of Publication: Monograph
Year Published: 2020
Author: Rene Ofreneo and Raquel Castillo


Beyond the Shared Tears of Bangsamoro Women Migrant Workers: From Greener Pastures to Greater Accountability

Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Year Published: 2019
Author: Cherry D. Orozco


Exploring Pathways to Empowerment: A Narrative of Bangsamoro Women Migrant Workers

Type of Publication: Discussion Paper
Year Published: 2019
Author: Cherry D. Orozco


Empowering the Nation’s Working Poor

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2015
Author: Rene Ofreneo


Reform of Labor Policies

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2013
Author: Gerardo P. Sicat


Health Implications of Labor Migration from the Philippines

Type of Publication: Journal Article
Year Published: 2006
Author: Jorge V. Tigno


The Philippine Overseas Employment Program: Public Policy Management from Marcos to Ramos

Type of Publication: Essay
Year Published: 2000
Author: Jorge V. Tigno


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Visit the UP CIDS collection database to download other publications. The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS) is a policy research unit of the University that is mandated to encourage collaborative and rigorous research addressing issues of national significance. Currently, it has 16 Research Programs.