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Defining Global Justice - The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy (Paperback, New)
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Defining Global Justice - The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy (Paperback, New)
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Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of
the history of the United States role in the International Labor
Organization (ILO). In this thought-provoking book, Edward Lorenz
addresses the challenge laid down by the President of the American
Political Science Association in 2000, who urged scholars to
discover "how well-structured institutions could enable the world
to have ‘a new birth of freedom’." Lorenz’s study describes
one model of a well-structured institution. His history of the U.S.
interaction with the ILO shows how some popular organizations, from
organized labor through women’s, academic, legal, and religious
institutions have been able to utilize the ILO structure to counter
what the APSA president called "self-serving elites and . . . their
worst impulses." These organizations succeeded repeatedly in
introducing popular visions of social justice into global economic
planning and the world economy. Lorenz demonstrates the key role
played by the social gospel movement, academic elites, women
leaders, lawyers, and organized labor in the quest for global
justice through labor standards. By underscoring the role of women
in this process, he highlights the importance of gender relations
in the development of labor standards policy. Lorenz also shows how
transformations in the economic and social reproduction of
knowledge gradually displaced academics from the cutting edge of
research on labor issues. Throughout this fascinating study, Lorenz
reminds his readers that the development of decent labor standards
has come in large part from the efforts of religious groups and a
host of other nongovernmental, voluntary civic organizations that
have insisted labor is a human activity, not a commodity. Defining
Global Justice reveals why the United States, despite showing
exceptional restraint in domestic social policy making, played a
leading role in the pursuit of just international labor standards.
Lorenz's lucid volume covers a century's worth of efforts, charting
the development of a body of international law and an institutional
structure as important to the global economy of the twenty-first
century as the battle against slavery was in the nineteenth
century.
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