Not a record of accomplishments of course, but an investigation into why employment and stability are absent from the globalized world and what might be done to introduce them. Eight studies, edited from the findings of a project prompted by the International Labour Office and the UN Development Programme, approach the problem regionally, considering advanced industrial countries, central and eastern Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan countries, east and south Asia, and the Middle East and north Africa. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.