Women's ILO : : transnational networks, global labour standards, and gender equity, 1919 to present / / edited by Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker, Susan Zimmermann.

• Superior document: Studies in global social history, Volume 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Boris, Eileen, 1948-; Hoehtker, Dorothea, 1964-; Zimmermann, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 pages).

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

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents / Susan Zimmermann -- Preface / Susan Zimmermann -- Acknowledgements / Susan Zimmermann -- Introduction: A Century of Women’s ilo / Eileen Boris , Dorothea Hoehtker and Susan Zimmermann -- The Work of Transnational Networks / Susan Zimmermann -- The Other ilo Founders: 1919 and Its Legacies / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women’s Work in the 1930s1 / Françoise Thébaud -- International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon and Erna Magnus / Kirsten Scheiwe and Lucia Artner -- Equality’s Cold War: The ilo and the un Commission on the Status of Women, 1946–1970s / Eileen Boris -- The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ilo and the International Trade Union Movement 1950s–1980s / Silke Neunsinger -- Transnational Links and Constraints: Women’s Work, the ilo and the icftu in Africa, 1950s–1980s / Yevette Richards -- Informal Women Workers Open ilo Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s–2010s / Chris Bonner , Pat Horn and Renana Jhabvala -- Women’s Representation at the ilo: A Hundred Years of Marginalization / Marieke Louis -- Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards / Susan Zimmermann -- Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919–1947 / Susan Zimmermann -- Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907–1941 / Paula Lucía Aguilar -- Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women’s Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s–1960s / Eloisa Betti -- Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ilo Standards / Akua O. Britwum -- Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ilo, 1980s–2010s / Sonya Michel -- When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / Mahua Sarkar.