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,
including organized labor, the women's movement, academics, the
legal community, 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.
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 policymaking,
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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