The International Labour Organisation (ILO) was founded in 1919 after World War I to promote social justice and decent work conditions internationally. As the first UN specialized agency, the ILO sets labor standards and aims to advance rights like freedom of association, abolishing child labor and forced labor. The ILO commits member states to respect principles protecting workers' rights, particularly for vulnerable groups. The document outlines the ILO's history and development, fundamental principles regarding labor rights, and challenges in ensuring decent work globally in a modern context.
3. Introduction
• The International Labour Organization emerged with the League
of Nations from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It was founded
to give expression to the growing concern for social reform after
World War I, and the conviction that any reform had to be
conducted at an international level. After World War II.
• The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United
Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social justice and
promote decent work by setting international labour
standards. It was the first specialised agency of the UN.
• The Declaration on Fundamental Principles & Right at Work
(1998) commits member states to respect and promote
principles in 4 categories, particularly groups with special needs
unemployed & migrant workers.
4. Objectives
• To understand the fundamental principles of ILO
and its relevance in the 21st century.
• To understand the development of ILO in the
international front and the challenges it faces.
• To understand how issues like Forced Labour and
Child Labour have shaped the present day
International Labour Standards.
5. Hypothesis & Research Questions
• The hypothesis of this research is that the International Labour
Organisation has been conceived through its historical development as
an institution, international political, economic, and social context,
recent developments especially international relations and a globalising
labour history. The central hypothesis is that scientific interest in the
history of international organisations is related to the general
importance attached to multilateral structures and belief in the
effectiveness of international co-operation.
• What was the scenario of women labourers, child labours, disabled
labours and forced labour before the International Labour
Organisation?
• What is the present day scenario with regards to founding principle
that social justice is essential to universal and lasting peace?
6. Chapterization
• Introduction
The ILO emerged with the League of Nations from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It
was founded to give expression to the growing concern for social reform after World
War I, and the conviction that any reform had to be conducted at an international level.
After World War II. Under this I’ve discussed the governance, membership of ILO,
conventions, International Labour Conference and ILO’s position within the UN.
• History of ILO
In this chapter I’ve discussed the origin of ILO, the IFTU Bern Conference, the
Commission on International Labour Legislation, ILO’s role during interwar period, cold
war era.
• Fundamental Principles of ILO
In this chapter I’ve discussed the need of ILO, the fundamental principles of ILO i.e
freedom of association, elimination of forced labour, abolition of child labour, elimination
of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
• Elimination of Forced Labour
In this chapter I’ve discussed the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 ; Abolition of
Forced Labour Convention, 1957.
7. • Abolition of Child Labour
In this chapter I’ve discussed the first session of the International Labour
Convention in 1919, Berlin Conference and Abolition of Child Labour in
India.
• Relevance of ILO in the 21st century
I’ve discussed the role of ILO standards in the context of the
accelerating globalization process of the 1990s led to very focussed and
renewed attention to their potential for setting the labour rules of the game
of globalization. The way ILO has responded to changing circumstances
without departing from its mandate of social justice.
• ILO & its Globalisation
In this chapter I’ve discussed how the challenges of globalisation have
made international labour standards more relevant than ever, an
international legal framework for fair and stable globalisation.
• Universal Labour Guarantee
In this chapter I’ve discussed how the an ULG coupled with other interlinked
proposals, including coverage of social protection from birth to old age, can
provide the necessary basis for the delivery of social justice in the 21st
century.
8. Suggestions
• The application of policies and their exercise must be persistent with ILO
fundamental principles and rights at work.
• Informal economy can be etched to improper, feeble, misplaced, or
inadequately designed or exercised social policies. Bring them under the ambit of
international labour standards.
• The need to get the world’s youth back to work – we have nearly 75 million
under-25 out of work – and the ILO is taking up its responsibilities, along with
others, to rescue that generation – we know that long unemployment has long-
lasting scarring effects.
• A major and innovative initiative on women at work which seems to be
required because existing strategies for equality despite their achievements do
seem to have run up against the buffers in the task of removing continued
circumstances of discrimination and disadvantage.
• The greening of the ILO’s social justice agenda, more than any other single
factor, will need to distinguish the second century of ILO work from its first.
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