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Recounts through the examination of a selected number of situations, the problems that the ILO faced, and faces.
Presenting an account of the International Labour Organization, this book provides the readers with an understanding of its purpose and structure. It covers key areas such as major moments of change, leadership, membership, organizational structure, decision-making capacity, and contemporary debates in historical perspective.
The International Labour Organization was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished only if it is based on social justice. As the oldest organisation in the UN system, approaching its 100th anniversary in 2019, the ILO faces unprecedented strains and challenges. Since before the financial crisis, the global economy has tested the limits of a regulatory regime which was conceived in 1919. The organisation's founders only entrusted it with balancing social progress with the constraints of an interconnected open economy, but gambled almost entirely on tools of persuasion to ensu...
Monograph on the origins, structure, membership and functions of the ILO and on the development of its social policy - covers the International Labour Conference, ILO Regional Conferences, the ILO Governing Body, the role of ILO in formulating labour standards, describes ILO Programmes of work, forecasts possible changes in structure and activities, includes the text of the ILO Constitution and a list of ILO Conventions and ILO Recommendations. Bibliography pp. 351 and 352.
First published in 1931. This study was written by various officials of the International Labour Office, and provides an overview of the work of this institution as it was in the years after its initial formation. The authors provide a full and systematic description of the activities within the organisation, and will be of great interest to scholars and students of political and labour history.
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