The International Labour Organization

Maul, Daniel; Puddu, Luca; Tijani, Hakeem Ibikunle

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“…The DW notion gained strength and came to be defended by the ILO and the United Nations system as a whole. It was initially part of a subtopic of Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG 1 -eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Maul, 2019). However, in 2015, with the final balance of the Sustainable Development Agenda, it gained the status of Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8; UN, 2015).…”

Section: The Notion Of Decent Work At a Macro-level Of Analysismentioning

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“…In 1976, the ILO launched several initiatives in parallel, such as the "humanization of labour". This initiative was triggered in 1975 in the ILO's Director-General Blanchard annual report referring to the issue under the title "Making work more Human" (ILO, 1975;Maul, 2019). On this issue, the ILO began to navigate, on the one hand, between encouraging the creation of productive employment and, on the other hand, improving its quality.…”

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DECENT WORK WORLDWIDE: Universal values, diverse expressions

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2024

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2024

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“…Throughout the interwar period, the ILO's Native Labour Section (NLS) was never staffed by more than three people, who between them conducted all the organization's work on colonial labour issues. 21 The NLS's work focussed on forced labour and slavery, with children's issues often collapsed into this work rather than examined on their own terms. 22 This meant that other labour practices involving colonized children, including wage labour, received limited attention.…”

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Colonial Exceptions: The International Labour Organization and Child Labour in British Africa, c.1919–40

Hepburn

Jackson

2021

Journal of Contemporary History

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From 1919, the International Labour Organization sought to improve protections for workers globally. Concurrently, the organization was dominated by colonial powers whose economies relied on the exploitation of colonized workers. This article explores how the International Labour Organization navigated this contradictory situation during the interwar period, focussing on its approach to child labour in British Africa. The introduction of a universal minimum employment age and the abolition of child labour were founding goals of the International Labour Organization. However, colonial powers wanted to maintain the extensive employment of children and the use of child labour in their colonies. Britain used its influence within the International Labour Organization to promote racialized constructions of childhood and to pluralize working children’s rights in International Labour Organization instruments. While the International Labour Organization’s tripartite structure did also provide a forum through which colonial labour practices could be challenged, Britain and its supporters ultimately succeeded in constructing a two-tier system of international labour law which rendered colonized children less protected than children in the industrialized West. In creating colonial exceptions, the International Labour Organization pursued and promoted a hierarchical and exclusionary form of internationalism. Overall, the article provides new insights into the development of the International Labour Organization and its legislation, as well as broader histories of childhood and of internationalism.

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From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Antidiscrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111

Hahs

2021

Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion

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The adoption of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) marked ILO’s first endorsement to universal non-discrimination and an early equal opportunity approach at work. Albeit considered to be premised upon “a traditional, formal-equality and formal-workplace vision of antidiscrimination law,” the convention marked a genuine new strand in international standard-setting in the Post-World War II and Philadelphia Declaration time. However, due to the implicit formal vision, it is assumed that ratification was more attractive and more feasible for countries of the Global North first. Following, this behavior diffused through colonial ties time-varying toward the Global South. Whether this assumption holds will also be studied regarding the moderating effects of networks of culture, trade, and regional proximity.

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The International Labour Organization

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DECENT WORK WORLDWIDE: Universal values, diverse expressions

DECENT WORK WORLDWIDE: Universal values, diverse expressions

Colonial Exceptions: The International Labour Organization and Child Labour in British Africa, c.1919–40

From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Antidiscrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111

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