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20However, from 1919 onward, the ILO has taken the opposite path, since its target group is composed of industrial wage earnersthat is to say, workers employed in the labour market. This Declaration reaffirms the universality of the ILO objectives: all Members of the Organization must pursue policies based on the strategic objectives of the Decent Work Agenda employment creation and enterprise development, social protection, social dialogue, and rights at work. The One Hundredth Session of the International Labour Conference held twenty-third plenary sittings, and adopted a Recommendation and a Convention: By Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office. the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008), as amended in 2022 (Social Justice Declaration) and was taking place eight years after the first recurrent discussion. 38Nevertheless, as long as communist regimes existed, the reformist stakeholders of the ILO mobilised and used the fear that these regimes aroused to advance their social agenda. Advancing social justice, promoting decent work ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. 5. The ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (see section 3 below), adopted by governments, workers and employers in June 2008, is designed to strengthen the ILO's capacity to promote the Decent Work Agenda and to forge an effective response to the increasingly significant challenges of globalization. The adoption by the International Labour Organization of the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization is just one recent example of the UN system's commitment to social justice . Each Party shall effectively implement the ILO Conventions that Kenya and the Member States of the European Union have respectively ratified. In addition, the United States joined the ILO in 1934 despite never having been a member of the League of Nations. 16In 1944, the government delegate from Colombia went further by saying: Work should not be a commodity. This productivist turn admittedly marked an inflection, but it endorsed the ILOs lasting assumption that economic prosperity was the condition of universal social justice. 15The ILO tackled the issue of labour as a commodity as early as 1920, in the context of its normative work on fixing a minimum wageone of the general principles expressed in its Constitution. ILO Centenary Proclamation for the Future of Work, 2019; Impact and people ; How the ILO works. 24As part of this policy in favour of economic development, the ILO set up and implemented productivity missions, the first of which was sent to Israel in 1952, one year before the activities of the European Productivity Agency (EPA) beganan agency placed under the authority of the European Organization for Economic Co-operation as part of the Marshall Plan. Its first director, French socialist Albert Thomas, was also keen to ensure their cooperation by developing and organising their support to the Organization (International Labour Office, 1931, 424468). 32On the other hand, the ILO proceeded differently for the territories now described as non-metropolitan: in 1947, it adopted Conventions 83 to 86, which extended to the populations concerned the social rights in force in metropolitan areas. ), Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, African Cities and the Development Conundrum, Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development, Sustainable Food Consumption, Urban Waste Management and Civic Activism, Combining Economic and Political Development, Aid, Emerging Economies and Global Policies, Dossier | Africa: 50 years of independence Review | Major development policy trends, A digital resources portal for the humanities and social sciences, Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), 2. A Russian section was formed and, during the interwar period, the ILO became a kind of intelligence agency with regard to communism in the USSR. Un agenda social pour le multilatralisme (Paris: LHarmattan). Until 1934, the Soviet Union refused to join the Organization. Daughton, J.P. (2013) ILO Expertise and Colonial Violence in the Interwar Years, in S. Kott, and J. Droux (eds.) The MNE Declared is the only ILO instrument that provides direct guidance to enterprise on social policy or inclusive, responsible and sustainable workplace traditions. 4This contribution therefore analyses, from a historical perspective, the ways in which the International Labour Organization has been able to affirm and fulfil the mission entrusted to it in 1919: to represent the worlds of labour and to promote social justice in a universal way. (1933) The International Labour Organization as an Alternative to Violent Revolution, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 166, pp.18-25, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1018783. LOIT: la justice sociale dans un monde global? Keeping up with the pace of innovation which will demand constant improvements in education, training, productivity and knowledge-sharing systems. This is the third major statement of principles and policies adopted by the International Labour Conference since the ILO's Constitution of 1919. At the same time, this question was discussed at the third Inter-African Labour Conferenceset up by the colonial administratorswhose main conclusions were taken up in 1953 by the ILO Committee. It targets a group largely composed of women and migrants, a group doubly marginalised on the national level and much more dependent than others on international protection. 31During David Morses term of office, the number of members of the Organization grew from 52 to 121 as a consequence of decolonisation (meanwhile the number of staff increased fivefold). This decision calls for some remarks. ILO (1957a) Productivity missions to underdeveloped countries, International Labour Review, 76(1), pp. 30-35. The ILO, clearly founded as an alternative to violent revolution (Shotwell, 1933, 1825), was in return denounced by the communists, who accused it of betraying the fundamental interests of the working class under the guise of reforming capitalism. Sandrine Kott, ILO: Social Justice in a Global World? Country data and ILO results; Africa; Americas; Arab States; Asia and the Pacific; . Advancing social justice, promoting decent work ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. But the ILO was also the direct heir to liberal social reform, some of whose movements had already organised themselves within various international associations. The Organization also implemented a fellowship programme and then a programme of courses for supervisory staff from developing countries in the Turin International Training Centre, established in 1965. (2008) Rguler la mondialisation: Albert Thomas, les dbuts du BIT et la crise conomique mondiale de 1920-1923, Albert Thomas au BIT, 1920-1932: de linternationalisme lEurope. Country data and ILO results; Africa; Americas; Arab States; I can go back to 1998, when our members and social partners adopted the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and in 2008 with the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization. 21Many workers are thus excluded from the scope of the Organization; this is particularly the case for informal workers who, in India, make up almost 93 per cent of the labour force. The International Labour Organization unanimously adopted the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization on 10 June 2008. Kott, S. and J. Droux (eds.) Recalling the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation of 2008, as 18From the outset, the communists voiced a more fundamental criticism of the ILO, stating that it contributed to the perpetuation and even the propagation of labour as a commodity by agreeing to improve the capitalist rules of the game. The ratification of the ILO Conventions on these rights has reached record levels. After Israel, other missions were sent to India, Egypt, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Bolivia, Greece, Hong Kong and Ceylon (ABIT, 195256). 229. In the 1960s and 1970s, this field of study was mainly focused on the history of workers and the affirmation of workers culture, giving rise to studies of the practices and forms of collective expression, carried out using a bottom-up approach and paying close attention to particular territories. The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Origins, vol. VI. ILC (1916) Resolutions of the International Labour Conference at Leeds, July 1916, in Shotwell, J. 50 2899 ILO Systematic Questionnaire and Bibliography on Labour Conditions in Soviet Russia, 1921, Aglan, A., O. Feiertag and D. Kvonian (2011), Humaniser le travail: rgimes conomiques, rgimes politiques et Organisation internationale du travail, 1929-1969, LOrganisation international du Travail, Etude sur une agence productrice de normes, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production: le bureau international du travail et la modernisation conomique durant lentre-deux-guerres. Kott, S. (2014) From transnational reformist network to International Organization: the International Association for Labour Legislation and the International Labour Organization (1900-1930), in B. 127-155, DOI:10.3917/lci.002.0127. E/2440. It builds on the Philadelphia Declaration of 1944 and the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work of 1998. 19Guy Standings statement must be understood in the light of his commitment to universal basic income, which is supposed to guarantee the subsistence of individuals regardless of their activity, or even the wages earned for their work. There should be guaranteed living wages (ILC, 1944, 101). 22Under the mandate of David Morse, Director General from 1948 to 1970, the terms of the relationship were even reversed in favour of an economists vision of labour as Morse, who previously worked in the New Deal administration, made increased productivity a central goal of organisational policy (Maul, 2010).The ILO took an interest in the question of the scientific organisation of labour and elaborated a productivity policy (Maier, 1977; Maier, 2010) as early as in the 1920s. The Fordist model of welfare capitalism was the main inspiration behind all these productivist measures: by creating wealth, the increase in productivity was supposed to increase the purchasing power of the workers. Since the publication of the encyclical Rerum novarum in 1891, the social doctrine of the Catholic Church had clearly been based on a demand for justice, taken up and amplified by the Catholic and Christian workers movement (Pasture and Govaert, 1999). With the global turn taken by the social sciences, the Organization has become a popular field for such expanding areas of study as the history of human rights, economic development, networks, and social reform; this research testifies to the centrality of the Organization and labour-related issues when it comes to thinking about the world (Van Daele et al., 2010; Lespinet-Moret and Vincent, 2011; Aglan et al., 2011; Kott and Droux, 2013). If decommodification is about making people less dependent on the labour market, then making them more dependent on being in wage labour for their social rights is a strange way of going about it (Standing, 2008, 355384). 465-499. . (1989) The International Labour Organization: a case study on the evolution of U.N. specialised agencies (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff). In addition, a number of US participants played a major role at the time of the creation of the Organization. Socialists emphasised the regulatory role of the state; the Christian movement, joined by the cooperative tradition, was more favourable to the development of free associations based on the self-help mode; and employers insisted on the importance of free enterprises that could generate economic growth to finance social spending. 173-195. Statements and speeches; News and press releases; With the media; Past Directors-General; Multilateral system. Follow-up activities for Seoul Declaration . 23-29. International Labour Office (1931) Dix ans dorganisation internationale du travail (Geneva: International Labour Office). 26-46, DOI:10.3917/gen.071.0026. After the USSR re-joined the Organization in 19542, the ILO became a platform for the two blocs to collaborate on the basis of a strong common belief in the need for more economic growth and increased productivity; this lasted until the crisis of 1977 and subsequent withdrawal of the United States from the ILO until 1980. Yet in a world where multinationals manage to free themselves from all national social legislation and where workers mobility is increasing, the international norms proposed by the ILO should be on the agenda more than ever. The Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization states that: "respecting, promoting and realizing the fundamental principles and rights at work, which are of particular significance, as both rights and enabling conditions that are necessary for the full realization of all of the strategic objectives, noting: As evidenced by debates on the issue of free or coerced labour and informality (Brass and Van der Linden, 1997), current research is taking labour out of the industrial workshop and looking more clearly at the diversity of its forms. To ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, adopted in 1998 and change in 2022, is an expression of commitment by international, employers' and workers' organizations for uphold basic human scores - values that are vital to our social and economically live.It affirms the obligations and commitments that are inherent in rank of the ILO, namely: This freedom of association, stated in the preamble to the 1919 Constitution, is therefore essential to the very functioning of the ILO. Shotwell, J. This is the third major statement of. 8598. This book explains how the ILO faced the challenges of globalization to social and labour rights when the end of the Cold War and new information technology changed the practice of international economic relations and trade. And, most recently in 2019 with the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work. 177-201. The challenges loom large. ECOSOC (United Nations Economic and Social Council) (1953) Working Paper prepared by the International Labour Office on the Role of Labour in Programmes for increasing Productivity, and Measures needed to safeguard the Interests of Workers, 16th Session, UN doc. The crises that emerged as we approached our 90th anniversary clearly revealed the validity of the ILOs position. Regulation of the hours of work including the establishment of a maximum working day and week; Regulation of labour supply, prevention of unemployment and provision of an adequate living wage; Protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment; Protection of children, young persons and women; Provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own; Recognition of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value; Recognition of the principle of freedom of association; Organization of vocational and technical education and other measures. The Declaration outlined clearly that the two pillars of social protection, mainly 23Nevertheless, from 1950, productivity became a priority of the Organization. The words "the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008), as amended in 2022" shall be substituted for the words "the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization" or any variant contained in the Preamble of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. (ed.) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes). The common goal of the Organization and local political elites was to foster economic development to enable the various countries involved in these programmes to find their place in global economic competition. On the occasion of the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023, the ILO's Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo states that 'a rapid recovery is only possible if sound foundations, built on decent work and social justice, are laid now as an essential precondition for peace.' Un agenda social pour le multilatralisme. 2008 [68] International Labour Organization (ILO): Home Work Convention (No. Maier, C.S. ILO (1965) The effectiveness of ILO management development and productivity projects, Report and conclusions, management development series No. Leffler and O.A. 26Thus the productivist turn of the 1950s stood in conflict with the values on which the Organization was based in two ways: it ran against the idea that the social sphere had to prevail over the economic, and it questioned the liberal conception of trade unions on which it was grounded. The International Labour Organization ( ILO) unanimously adopted the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization on 10 June 2008. The 1930 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (C 29) is a perfect illustration of this orientation; it aimed to transform forced labour into contractual wage work framed by the two 1939 agreements on employment contracts and penal sanctions, respectively (C 64 and 65) (Maul, 2012; Rodrguez-Piero, 2005; Zimmermann, 2010; Daughton, 2013). The Declaration expresses the universality of the Decent Work Agenda: all Members of the Organization must pursue policies based on the strategic objectives - employment, social protection, social dialogue, and rights at work. Zimmermann, S. (2010) Special Circumstances in Geneva: The ILO and the World of Non-Metropolitan Labour in the Interwar Period, in J. In addition, the Health Section of the League of Nations competed with certain sectors of the Organizations activities, relying on Rockefeller Foundation money, which was less accessible to the ILO. In the absence of the USSR, the leading American union, the American Federation of Labour, used the ILO to campaign against forced labour in the USSR and the countries that would form the Eastern Bloc (Kott, 2012). International Labour Organization (ILO): Social Justice Declaration. Reproductive work, generally undertaken by women, should be added to informal labour. This question of the minimum wage defined as a condition and an instrument of the decommodification of labour runs through the history of the Organization. 7The ILOs normative activities thus originally aimed to achieve these different objectives (Bonvin, 1998) in the form of a sort of international labour code, inspired by the legislation implemented in the most socially advanced nations. Van Daele, M. Rodriguez Garcia, G. van Goethem and M. van der Linden (eds.) This technical support allowed the Organization to disseminate its model of social insurance by ensuring that the legislation put in place in these countries was compatible with its conventions. An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 3(3), pp. Collective bargaining and labour relations, Employment injury insurance and protection, Forced labour, human trafficking and slavery, Agriculture; plantations;other rural sectors, Financial services; professional services, Shipping; ports; fisheries; inland waterways, Transport (including civil aviation; railways; road transport). Boris, E. and J.N. (2003) The European Productivity Agency and Transatlantic Relations, 1953-1961 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press/University of Copenhagen). Nevertheless, areas of contention still existed within the movement, especially concerning the role that should be attributed to the different stakeholders. Overview of the Seoul Declaration . ILO (International Labour Organization) (2018a) Lavenir du travail, http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-work/lang--fr/index.htm (accessed on 7 January 2018).