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What is the place of women in global labour policies? Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women's work. It asks: what was the role of women's networks in shaping ILO policies and what were the gendered meanings of international labour law in a world of uneven and unequal development? Women's ILO explores issues like equal remuneration, home-based labour, and social welfare internationally and in places such as Argentina, Italy, and Ghana. It scrutinizes the impact of both power relations and global feminisms on the making of global labour policies in a world shaped by colonialism, the Cold War and post-colonial inequality. It further charts the disparate advancement of gender equity, highlighting the significant role of women experts and activists in the process. Contributors are: Paula Lucia Aguilar, Lucia Artner, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Akua O. Britwum, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dorothea Hoehtker, Pat Horn, Sonya Michel, Silke Neunsinger, Renana Jhabvala, Marieke Louis, Yevette Richards, Mahua Sarkar, Kirsten Scheiwe, Francoise Thebaud, Susan Zimmermann This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor and international/transnational history. - Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, USA This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO's role in securing social justice for women workers around the world and asks how that role might change as the world of work is transformed in the next century. - Celia Donert, University of Liverpool This exciting collection provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come. - Elisabeth Prugl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

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Author:   Eileen Boris ,  Dorothea Hoehtker ,  Susan Zimmerman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Weight:   0.813kg
ISBN:  

9789004360396

ISBN 10:   9004360395
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   15 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Century of Women's ilo â Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker and Susan Zimmermann Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks 1 The Other ilo Founders : 1919 and Its Legacies â Dorothy Sue Cobble 2Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women's Work in the 1930s â Francoise Thebaud 3International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon, and Erna Magnus â Kirsten Scheiwe and Lucia Artner 4Equality's Cold War: The ilo and the un Commission on the Status of Women, 1946-1970s â Eileen Boris 5The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ilo, and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s-1980s â Silke Neunsinger 6Transnational Links and Constraints: Women's Work, the ilo, and the icftu in Africa, 1950s-1980s â Yevette Richards 7Informal Women Workers Open ilo Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s-2010s â Chris Bonner, Pat Horn and Renana Jhabvala 8Women's Representation at the ilo: A Hundred Years of Marginalization â Marieke Louis Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards 9Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919-1947 â Susan Zimmermann 10Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907-1941 â Paula Lucia Aguilar 11Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women's Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s-1960s â Eloisa Betti 12Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ilo Standards â Akua O. Britwum 13Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ilo, 1980s-2010s â Sonya Michel 14When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century â Mahua Sarkar Bibliography Index

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Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. - Elizabeth Faue, in: CHOICE, 56:4 (2018) Endorsements: This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO's role in securing social justice for women workers around the world over the past hundred years, and asks how that role might change as the world of work is itself transformed in the next century. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in the history of labour, feminist activism, social rights and international organizations. - Celia Donert, University of Liverpool This is an exciting collection that provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It brings to life a feminist and historical perspective-broadening the consideration of women at the ILO to an exploration of gender politics, intersectionally weaving race, class, and coloniality into such politics, exploring the power of the ILO's gender expertise to define new realities, recognizing the institutional conflicts between the ILO and the UN regarding gender politics during the Cold War, valorizing the power of women's and feminist networks, bringing into view the translations of ILO ideas into multiple contexts around the world, and showing how the very meaning of work needs re-evaluation when women's experiences are taken seriously. In addition to doing all this, the collection offers rich empirical materials based on original research. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come. - Elisabeth Prugl, Professor of International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Women's ILO is a groundbreaking anthology that explores how women's transnational political networks have shaped the International Labour Organization and how the ILO has sought to create standards for work conditions for women throughout the 20th century. In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ILO, founded in 1919, this volume brings together established as well as emerging scholars from across the globe to explore issues related to women, labor, and international regulation. The essays, written by historians and social scientists, have a broad geographical as well as chronological reach. The authors explore issues related to gender, work, and economic justice in the global South and North. They also trace the developments of the ILO, women's networks, and gendered regulations across the interwar years, World War II and the Cold War, and the rise and expansion of neoliberalism and globalization. This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor, and international/transnational history. - Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Endorsements: This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO's role in securing social justice for women workers around the world over the past hundred years, and asks how that role might change as the world of work is itself transformed in the next century. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in the history of labour, feminist activism, social rights and international organizations. - Celia Donert, University of Liverpool This is an exciting collection that provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It brings to life a feminist and historical perspective-broadening the consideration of women at the ILO to an exploration of gender politics, intersectionally weaving race, class, and coloniality into such politics, exploring the power of the ILO's gender expertise to define new realities, recognizing the institutional conflicts between the ILO and the UN regarding gender politics during the Cold War, valorizing the power of women's and feminist networks, bringing into view the translations of ILO ideas into multiple contexts around the world, and showing how the very meaning of work needs re-evaluation when women's experiences are taken seriously. In addition to doing all this, the collection offers rich empirical materials based on original research. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come. - Elisabeth Prugl, Professor of International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Women's ILO is a groundbreaking anthology that explores how women's transnational political networks have shaped the International Labour Organization and how the ILO has sought to create standards for work conditions for women throughout the 20th century. In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ILO, founded in 1919, this volume brings together established as well as emerging scholars from across the globe to explore issues related to women, labor, and international regulation. The essays, written by historians and social scientists, have a broad geographical as well as chronological reach. The authors explore issues related to gender, work, and economic justice in the global South and North. They also trace the developments of the ILO, women's networks, and gendered regulations across the interwar years, World War II and the Cold War, and the rise and expansion of neoliberalism and globalization. This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor, and international/transnational history. - Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Author Information

Eileen Boris, Ph.D. (Brown University, 1981) holds the Hull Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author or editor of twelve volumes, she writes on home labours and race, gender, and class in social politics. Dorothea Hoehtker , Ph.D. (EHESS, Paris, 2003), is a historian and Senior Researcher at the ILO. She is co-editor, with Sandrine Kott, of A la rencontre de l'Europe au travail. Recits de voyages d'Albert Thomas (1920-1932) (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne/ILO, 2015). Susan Zimmermann, Ph.D. (Vienna University, 1993) is University Professor at Central European University. She has written on international labour and welfare policy, internationalism and global inequality, the history of women's movements and women in mixed organizations.

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