ILO: Social Justice in a Global World? A History in Tension
This contribution analyses, from a historical perspective, the ways in which the International Labour Organization has been able to affirm and fulfil the mission entrusted to it in 1919: to represent the worlds of labour and promote social justice in a universal way. It shows that, from its inceptio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/poldev/2991 |
| Summary: | This contribution analyses, from a historical perspective, the ways in which the International Labour Organization has been able to affirm and fulfil the mission entrusted to it in 1919: to represent the worlds of labour and promote social justice in a universal way. It shows that, from its inception, the Organization has been locked in a fundamental contradiction between the promise of social justice and the decommodification of labour that this promise expresses, on the one hand, and the Organization’s role as a social agent of economic globalisation, on the other. This tension increased after the Second World War, in the context of the Cold War and decolonisation. |
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| ISSN: | 1663-9375 1663-9391 |