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The International Labor Organization (ILO) was conceived at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as part of the League of Nations machinery, and is the sole direct survivor of the League system. Currently a specialised agency of the United Nations, the ILO possesses a number of distinctive features which have set it apart from other international institutions. These include a record of continuity extending almost seventy years; a constitution that provides for tripartite representation through the participation of governments, workers and employers; and a sufficiently elastic mandate to enable the organisation to pursue specific functional or technical issues as well as a broad range of more general socioeconomic objectives.
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James T. Shotwell (ed.), The Origins of the International Labor Organisation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), vol.1, pp. xxi–v
Albert Thomas, ‘The International Labor Organization: Its Origins, Development and Future’, International Labor Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1921), p. 11.
Failure to adopt this report, which was critical of Czechoslovakia and the USSR, influenced the United States to carry out its decision to withdraw from the ILO. General Accounting Office, ‘Sustaining Improved US Participation in the International Labor Organization Requires new Approaches’, Report to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, by the Comptroller General of the United States (Washington, DC, 1984), p. 9.
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Kruglak, G. (1989). Tripartitism and the ILO. In: Forsythe, D.P. (eds) The United Nations in the World Political Economy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20196-9_12
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