ILO
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INTRODUCTION
The International Labour Organization emerged with the League of Nations from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and it became the first specialized agency associated with the newly formed United Nations Organization in 1946.
The ILO is the international institutional framework which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights to improve working conditions everywhere in the world of employment.
The ILO has generated such hallmarks of industrial society such as eight-hour working day, maternity protection, child-labour laws, and a wide range of policies which promote workplace safety and peaceful industrial relations.
1. THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS (ILO) IN THE GROWTH OF GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT.
The impact of globalisation on employment, working conditions and labour standards, and vice-versa, has been a contested issue in recent debates over globalisation concerning ILO's capacity to promote labour standards in the context of globalisation.
While the enthusiastic claimed that globalisation creates greater equality of economic and social opportunities around the globe, the critics argue that recent decades of globalisation have aggravated social inequality and polarisation between the rich and the poor within developing and industrialised countries.
Considering that a majority of the countries in the world still fail to comply with the basic ILO conventions on freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, ILO has invited all major international agencies to engage in an in depth rethinking of the ways and means to make decent work and labour standards an integral part of the agenda for global economic and social development.
In November 2001, the ILO held the Global Employment Forum to bring together the member States to explore the global strategy for employment promotion. And to reinforce the need for international strategy on employment to recreate confidence in generating global economic growth...