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Author: Somik V. Lall
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821398393
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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"This report was written by a team led by Somik V. Lall"--P. xi.

Author: Jasmien van Daele
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034305167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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In 2009, the International Labour Organization (ILO) celebrated its ninetieth anniversary. The First World War and the revolutionary wave it provoked in Russia and elsewhere were powerful inspirations for the founding of the ILO. There was a growing understanding that social justice, in particular by improving labour conditions, was an essential precondition for universal peace. Since then, the ILO has seen successes and set-backs; it has been ridiculed and praised. Much has been written about the ILO; there are semi-official histories and some critical studies on the organization's history have recently been published. Yet, further source-based critical and comprehensive analyses of the organization's origins and development are still lacking. The present collection of eighteen essays is an attempt to change this unsatisfactory situation by complementing those histories that already exist, exploring new topics, and offering new perspectives. It is guided by the observation that the ILO's history is not primarily about «elaborating beautiful texts and collecting impressive instruments for ratification» but about effecting «real change and more happiness in peoples' lives».

Author: Francis Maupain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782255958
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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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 ensure that this would happen. Whether that gamble is still capable of paying-off is the subject of this book, by a former ILO insider with an unrivalled knowledge of its work. The book forms part of a broader inquiry into the relevance of founding institutional principles to today's context, and strives to show that the bet made on persuasion may yet pay off. In part, the text argues that there may be little alternative anyway, showing that the pathways to more binding solutions are fraught with difficulty. It also shows the ILO's considerable future potential for promoting effective, universal regulations by extending its tools of persuasion in as yet insufficiently explored directions. Starting with an examination of how the organisation's institutional context differs from 93 years ago, the author goes on to evaluate the prospects of numerous proposals put forward today, including the trade/labour linkage, but going beyond this. As a case study in how strategic choices can be made under legal, social and institutional constraints, the book should be valuable not only to those with an interest in the ILO, but to anyone who studies international organisation, labour law, law and society or political economy.

Author: B. Badie
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006439
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The status quo of the modern world order, a diplomatic entente best characterized as "connivance diplomacy," is limited in its performances, defensive of its privileges, midway between competition and cooperation. It is examined here through its history, its functions, and its failures.

Author: Antony Evelyn Alcock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349011363
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Recounts through the examination of a selected number of situations, the problems that the ILO faced, and faces.

Author: Ernst B. Haas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780955248870
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Using the ILO as a case study, presents a study of supranational integration. Conceives of integration as the process by which governmental functions are transferred from nation-states to international organizations.

Author: Walden F. Bello
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
ISBN: 9715504981
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Jean Jacques Rousseau's thinking on the nature and dynamics of international politics represents a brilliant and disturbing contribution to our understanding of international affairs. This book attempts to make Rousseau's thinking on international relations easily accessible by collecting for the first time selections from Rousseau's important writings in which he develops his unique international perspective, and by providing a detailed interpretation of this perspective.

Author:
Publisher: ILO/IPEC
ISBN: 9789222277544
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
Languages : fr
Pages : 96

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Author: International Labour Conference
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789220290163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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