The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim

1. Introduction
Jill M. Jensen, Nelson Lichtenstein

Part I. Beyond Europe: The ILO Encounters the Pacific World

2. A Sea of Difference: The ILO and the Search for Common Standards, 1919–45
Leon Fink

3. The ILO, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region: New Solidarities or Internationalism in the National Interest?
Marilyn Lake

4. Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates over Rights, Representation and Global Labour Standards
Dorothy Sue Cobble

Part II. The Dilemmas of Development

5. Negotiating a World Trade and Employment Charter: The United States, the ILO and the Collapse of the ITO Ideal
Jill M. Jensen

6. The ILO, Asia and the Beginnings of Technical Assistance, 1945–60
Daniel Roger Maul

7. Difference’s Other: The ILO and “Women in Developing Countries”
Eileen Boris

Part III. The Human Rights Revolution

8. Homeworkers Organizing for Recognition and Rights: Can International Standards Assist Them?
Annie Delaney, Jane Tate, Rosaria Burchielli

9. The Global Domestic: Mapping Decent Work in International Dialogues
Jennifer Fish, Jennifer Turner

10. The Limits of Human Rights for Labour Rights: A Retrospective Look at the Case of Chile
César F. Rosado Marzán

Part IV. Success and Failure in the New Asian Economy

11. Legal Protection of the Right to Old-Age Insurance for Migrant Workers from Rural Areas in China
Changzheng Zhou

12. Freedom of Association: A Comparison of Chinese and US Approaches to ILO Standards
Clifford B. Donn, Minghua Zhao

13. The ILO and the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime in East and South Asia
Nelson Lichtenstein

Keywords: History, European History, Economic History, Asian History, Sociology of Work, Social History, Modern History