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This volume brings together a series of original essays by scholars from various national settings and disciplines to explore the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the nations bordering the Pacific, largely East Asia and Latin America, chiefly in the years following the Second World War. Our approach is primarily historical, but with a clear methodological focus: how ideas and practice characteristic of decades past have often played a decisive role in shaping contemporary efforts, both transnational and within a single nation, that advance decent labour standards and social and economic reform today.
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R. Appelbaum, H. Wang, F. Degiuli, and N. Lichtenstein, “China’s New Labor Contract Law: Is China Moving toward Increased Power for Workers?” Third World Quarterly, 30 (April 2009), 485–501.
See, S. Lawrence and J. Ishikawa, “Social Dialogue Indicators, Trade Union Membership, and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Statistical Concepts, Methods and Findings,” Working paper no. 59, International Labour Office, 2005.
Producing monographs such as Daniel Maul, Human Rights, Development and Decolonization: The International Labour Organization, 1940–70 (Basingstoke and Geneva: Palgrave Macmillan and ILO, 2012); and E. C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013). Also, in a growing collection of edited volumes such as S. Kott and J. Droux, eds., Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); G. Rodgers, E. Lee, L. Swepston and J. Van Daele, eds., The International Labour Organization and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 (Geneva and Ithaca, NY: ILO and Cornell University Press, 2009); J. Van Daele, M. Rodríguez Garćia, G. Van Goethem, and M. van der Linden, eds., ILO Histories: Essays on the International Labour Organization and Its Impact on the World During the Twentieth Century (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010); and K. Basu, H. Horn, L. Roman, and J. Shapiro, eds., International Labor Standards: History, Theory, and Policy Options (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003). Also, in journal articles, such as D. R. Maul, “‘Help Them Move the ILO Way’: The International Labor Organization and the Modernization Discourse in the Era of Decolonization and the Cold War,” Diplomatic History,33, no.3 (June 2009), 387–404; J. Jensen, “From Geneva to the Americas: The International Labor Organization and Inter-American Social Security Standards, 1936–1948,” International Labor and Working Class History, no.80 (2011), 215–40; S. Kott (translated by Joel Golb), “The Forced Labor Issue between Human and Social Rights, 1947–1957,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 3, no.3 (Winter, 2012), 321–35; and E. Boris, “Mothers, Household Managers, and Productive Workers: The International Labor Organization and Women in Development,” Global Social Policy, 14, no. 2 (2014), 198–208.
According to C. Yifeng in “The International Labour Organisation and Labour Governance in China, 1919–1949,” in R. Blanpain, ed., China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2014), 53.
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Jensen, J.M., Lichtenstein, N. (2016). Introduction. In: Jensen, J.M., Lichtenstein, N. (eds) The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim. International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137570901_1
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