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Author Jensen, Jill M

Title The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim : West Meets East
Published Geneva : ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Series ILO Century Series
International Labour Organization century series.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction -- Jill M Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein; Part I. Beyond Europe: The ILO Encounters the Pacific World; 1. A Sea of Difference: The ILO and the Search for Common Standards,1919-45 -- Leon Fink; 2. The ILO, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region: New Solidarities or Internationalism in the National Interest? -- Marilyn Lake; 3. Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates over Rights, Representation and Global Labour Standards -- Dorothy Sue Cobble; Part II. The Dilemmas of Development
4. Negotiating a World Trade and Employment Charter: The United States, the ILO and the Collapse of the ITO Ideal -- Jill M Jensen5. The ILO, Asia and the Beginnings of Technical Assistance, 1945-60 -- Daniel Roger Maul; 6. Difference's Other: The ILO and "Women in Developing Countries" -- Eileen Boris; Part III. The Human Rights Revolution; 7. Homeworkers Organizing for Recognition and Rights: Can International Standards Assist Them? Annie Delaney, Jane Tate and Rosaria Burchielli; 8. The Global Domestic: Mapping Decent Work in International Dialogues -- Jennifer Fish and Jennifer Turner
9. The Limits of Human Rights for Labour Rights: A Retrospective Look at the Case of Chile -- César F Rosado MarzánPart IV. Success and Failure in the New Asian Economy; 10. Legal Protection of the Right to Old-Age Insurance for Migrant Workers from Rural Areas in China -- Changzheng Zhou; 11. Freedom of Association: A Comparison of Chinese and US Approaches to ILO Standards -- Clifford B Donn and Minghua Zhao; 12. The ILO and the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime in East and South Asia -- Nelson Lichtenstein; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject International Labour Organization -- History
International Labour Organization
International labor activities -- Pacific Area
Labor movement -- Pacific Area
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
International labor activities
Labor movement
Pacific Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lichtenstein, Nelson
ISBN 9789221296492
9221296490