Women's ILO : Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present.

Intro -- Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A Century of Women's ILO -- Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks -- 1 The Other ILO Founders: 1919 and Its Legacies -- 2 Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women's Work in the 1930s -- 3 International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon and Erna Magnus -- 4 Equality's Cold War: The ILO and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1946-1970s -- 5 The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ILO and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s-1980s -- 6 Transnational Links and Constraints: Women's Work, the ILO and the ICFTU in Africa, 1950s-1980s -- 7 Informal Women Workers Open ILO Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s-2010s -- 8 Women's Representation at the ILO: A Hundred Years of Marginalization -- Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards -- 9 Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919-1947 -- 10 Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907-1941 -- 11 Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women's Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s-1960s -- 12 Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ILO Standards -- 13 Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ILO, 1980s-2010s -- 14 When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Bibliography -- Index.

Women's ILO examines a century-long history of women and their networks involved in and with the ILO, the gendered meaning of labour standards, and the challenges of achieving gender equity through international labour law, transnational campaigns, and local labour policies.

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