Women's ILO : Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Office, International Labour.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

International Labour Organization.

Women in the labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women’s ILO

Place of Publication:

Genève 22 : International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2018.

Summary:

The question of women workers has been on the ILO's agenda since 1919. This volume gathers newest scholarly research on the complex history of the ILO's activities for women workers.

Contents:

Intro

Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A Century of Women's ILO

Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks

1 The Other ILO Founders: 1919 and Its Legacies

2 Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women's Work in the 1930s

3 International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon and Erna Magnus

4 Equality's Cold War: The ILO and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1946-1970s

5 The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ILO and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s-1980s

6 Transnational Links and Constraints: Women's Work, the ILO and the ICFTU in Africa, 1950s-1980s

7 Informal Women Workers Open ILO Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s-2010s

8 Women's Representation at the ILO: A Hundred Years of Marginalization

Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards

9 Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919-1947

10 Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907-1941

11 Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women's Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s-1960s

12 Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ILO Standards

13 Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ILO, 1980s-2010s

14 When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789221300748

9221300749

OCLC:

1321791780