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

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.

About the author

Eileen Boris, Ph.D. (Brown University, 1981) holds the Hull Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author or editor of twelve volumes, she writes on home labours and race, gender, and class in social politics.
Dorothea Hoehtker, Ph.D. (EHESS, Paris, 2003), is a historian and Senior Researcher at the ILO. She is co-editor, with Sandrine Kott, of A la rencontre de l'Europe au travail. Récits de voyages d'Albert Thomas (1920-1932) (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne/ILO, 2015).
Susan Zimmermann, Ph.D. (Vienna University, 1993) is University Professor at Central European University. She has written on international labour and welfare policy, internationalism and global inequality, the history of women's movements and women in mixed organizations.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eileen Boris (Editor), Dorothea Hoehtker (Editor), Susan Zimmerman (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2018
• EAN: 9789004360396
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36039-6
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law