Seventeen 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 seventeen 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 links 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
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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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 twelve Research Programs.