This guide describes how large-scale labour-based infrastructure programmes, carried out by contract, should be developed. It introduces cost-effective, employment-intensive approaches to infrastructure works while exploring how socio-economic objectives such as employment, conditions of work and labour standards can be integrated into private sector programmes of this nature.; Written to contribute to a policy of job creation and progress in developing countries, the guide discusses different options for private sector development. It examines the selection and participation of private contra.

Based on studies and the experience of ILO technical cooperation projects. Includes recommendations for government ministries, and workers' and employers' organizations.

Includes a list of ILO Conventions apply to temporary construction workers.