West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim : PAPERS
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February 3, 2011
3:30 p.m.
Panel on Postwar development and technical assistance
Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara
“Difference's Others: The ILO and 'Women in Developing Countries,' From Margin to Center”
Jason Guthrie, University of Maryland
“The International Labor Organization and the Politics of Rural Development in Bolivia”
Daniel Roger Maul, University of Giessen, Germany
“The ILO, Asia, and the Beginnings of Technical Assistance, 1945-1960”
February 4, 2011
10:00 a.m.
The ILO and legal, social justice, and trade models throughout Latin America
Andrew Schrank, University of New Mexico
“The ILO and Development: The Diffusion of Beneficial Constraints in Latin America”
Jill Jensen University of Calirornia, Santa Barbara
“The ‘Havana Charter’ and the Postwar Debate over Trade, Labor Standards, and Employment”
Norberto Ferreras, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
“The International Labor Organization and its Relationship with Latin America: The Question of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples”
1:30 p.m.
The ILO and legal models for industrialization in Asia
Shin-ichi Ago, Kyushu University, Japan
“The Role of International Labour Standards in Asia – Emergence of New ‘Legal’ Instruments and their Implications”
Haley Wrinkle, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Worker Rights in the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia Program”
Jian Qiao, China Institute of Labour Relations, Beijing
“Tripartite Systems with the Chinese Characteristics: The First Step to Tripartite Consultation and Social Dialogue?”
3:00 p.m.
International political economy and the question of labor standards
Lorenzo Mechi, University of Padua, Italy
“Economic Regionalism and Social Stabilization: The ILO and Western Europe during the Early Cold War Years”
Carmen De Michele, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
“ILO Core Labour Standards in Export Processing Zones in Asia since the 1970s”
February 5
9 a.m.
Human rights and social welfare protections through the ILO
Marley Weiss, University of Maryland School of Law
“Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Empowering Collective Interest Representation of Workers: Examining the Ledger of the ILO”
Changzheng Zhou, Nanjing University, China
“Legal Protection of the Right to Old-Age Insurance for Migrant Workers from Rural Areas in China: An Assessment in light of ILO Standards”
Patricia Kurczyn Villalobos, National Autonomous University, Mexico
“Human rights, Social Security, and the ILO’s Convention 102 on Minimum Standards of Social Security in Mexican Law”
10:30 a.m.
Gendering and racializing international labor standards
Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University
"Mapping 'Decent Work for Domestic Workers': Engaging Transnational Gender Activism in the ILO"
Annie Delaney, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; Rosaria Burchielli (La Trobe University); and Jane Tate (Homeworkers Worldwide)
“Homeworker Initiatives: Gaining Recognition and Rights as Workers through Organising and National and International Standards.”
Marilyn Lake, LaTrobe University, Australia
“Australian Ambitions at the ILO: The Issue of Asian Labour”
12:00 p.m. lunch
1 p.m.
The ILO and its meanings for organized labor
César F. Rosado Marzán, Chicago Kent College of Law
“The Power to Frame: The Human Rights Turn On Labor Rights in Chile”
John Logan, San Francisco State University
“US Unions and the ILO's Committee on Freedom of Association: An Effective Means of Combating Domestic Anti-Unionism?”
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University
“The Role of the ILO in Building and Sustaining Women’s Transnational Labor Activism”
2:30 p.m.
Special labor roundtable on the current state of labor standards in China, throughout Asia, and beyond
Anita Chan, China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney
Jeff Ballinger, Director of Press for Change
Dan Fibiger, Program Manager, Responsible Sourcing Network