The Preparation of International Labor Conventions

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.

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Efforts to Improve International Migration Statistics: A Historical Perspective

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791838702100404 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 967-995 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ellen Percy Kraly ◽

K.S. Gnanasekaran

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

International Migration ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

The Past ◽

International Labor ◽

History Of ◽

The United Nations ◽

Statistical Systems

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.

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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

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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.

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Is the International Labor Organization Autonomous?

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1947231 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 866-870 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul G. Steinbicker

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

International Cooperation ◽

The United States ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

Full Membership ◽

International Labor

When the United States last year became a member of the International Labor Organization, many people deplored the decision as being the first covert step toward full membership in the League of Nations. Those whose outlook was more sympathetic to international cooperation replied, in defense, that the Labor Organization is independent of the League, having its own buildings, its own separate organs, its own secretariat, and so on; that its membership is not identical with that of the League; and that therefore a state, by becoming a member of the Labor Organization assumed no connection whatever with the League.

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Toward a History of “The Communist League” 1847–1852

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859000000651 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 234-252 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

B. Nicolaevsky

Keyword(s):

Labor Movement ◽

Initial Period ◽

Organizational Forms ◽

International Labor ◽

History Of ◽

Points Of View ◽

International Labor Movement ◽

Scientific Documentation

The activity of the Communist League (Kommunisten-Bund), 1847–1852, and of its immediate predecessors – the League of the Just (Bund der Gerechten), 1838–1847, and the Communist Correspondence Committee (Kommunist. Korrespondenz Kommittee), 1846–1847 – was undoubtedly one of the most interesting stages in the large process of the formation of the international labor movement in its initial period. The history of these organizations is important from many points of view: it is important for the understanding both of the true roots of this movement, and of its search for organizational forms; and particularly for the light it throws upon the history of its efforts to develop a program and tactics. This is why research has so often turned its attention to this subject. And yet, in terms of completeness and scientific documentation, there is as yet no study providing a satisfactory survey of the life and activities of these organizations.

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