Women's ILO

Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36039-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Social History

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 Lucía 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, Françoise Thébaud, 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 Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boris, Eileen

Hoehtker, Dorothea

Zimmerman, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A Century of Women’s ilo
Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker and Susan Zimmermann

Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks

1“The Other ilo Founders”: 1919 and Its Legacies
Dorothy Sue Cobble

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

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

4Equality’s Cold War: The ilo and the un Commission on the Status of Women, 1946–1970s
Eileen Boris

5The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ilo, and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s–1980s
Silke Neunsinger

6Transnational Links and Constraints: Women’s Work, the ilo, and the icftu in Africa, 1950s–1980s
Yevette Richards

7Informal Women Workers Open ilo Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s–2010s
Chris Bonner, Pat Horn and Renana Jhabvala

8Women’s Representation at the ilo: A Hundred Years of Marginalization
Marieke Louis

Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards

9Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919–1947
Susan Zimmermann

10Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907–1941
Paula Lucía Aguilar

11Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women’s Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s–1960s
Eloisa Betti

12Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ilo Standards
Akua O. Britwum

13Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ilo, 1980s–2010s
Sonya Michel

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

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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. Récits 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.