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 wha...

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.