International Labor Organization: History of Formation and Development

During the past decade the international statistical community has made several efforts to develop standards for the definition, collection and publication of statistics on international migration. This article surveys the history of official initiatives to standardize international migration statistics by reviewing the recommendations of the ISI, International Labor Organization and the United Nations and reports a recently proposed agenda for moving toward comparability among national statistical systems.

Download Full-text

History of the International Labor Organization.

ILR Review ◽

10.2307/2521408 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 747

Author(s):

Walter Galenson ◽

Anthony Alcock

Keyword(s):

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

International Labor ◽

History Of

Download Full-text

The Preparation of International Labor Conventions

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2190377 ◽

1934 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 506-526 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Francis G. Wilson

Keyword(s):

International Cooperation ◽

Labor Movement ◽

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

Labor Conditions ◽

Adequate Information ◽

International Labor ◽

History Of ◽

International Labor Movement

There is virtual silence in the history of the international labor movement on the technique of preparing international labor conventions both before and at the Peace Conference. The developments of the last fourteen years in this field must, therefore, be listed as an unexpected evolution in international coöperation. It should have been easy to see at the end of the first International Labor Conference in 1919 that the methods of preparation were defective. That the Organizing Committee of 1919 should not have had adequate information on world labor conditions is understandable; but what is not understandable is that there was scarcely any consciousness of the magnitude of the problem before the International Labor Organization in drafting suitable labor conventions.

Download Full-text

Soviet Employers in the ILO: The Experience of the 1930's

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859000001899 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 353-374 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John P. Windmuller

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Director General ◽

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

Political Issues ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

International Labor ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

Communist Countries

Since 1954 no question has so well succeeded in exacerbating the once rather staid proceedings of the International Labor Conference of the International Labor Organization as the problem of the status and rights of employer delegates from those countries which may be designated as “the states with fully socialized economies”. While David A. Morse, Director-General of the International Labor Office, was certainly correct in pointing out that “The ILO has always been confronted with political issues of one kind or another and [that] many of them have related to the representation of employers and workers within the Organization”, there is hardly any parallel in the history of the International Labor Organization for the fury of the debate over employer delegates from Communist countries which was unleashed when the Soviet Union rejoined the ILO in 1954.

Download Full-text