Event Details

End: December 15, 2018
Contact: kilwp@georgetown.edu

Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights

 

Washington, DC

October 24-26, 2019

 

October 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor Organization (ILO). This conference will mark the centenary of that watershed event.  It will be both retrospective and prospective.  It will look back to analyze and evaluate a century of efforts to advance workers’ rights around the globe.  It will look forward to ponder the ways in which global supply chains, financialization, and the growth of the “gig” economy and other forms of non-standard work challenge the ILO system and raise questions about the very definition of employers and employees and the basis of labor relations. 

 

The conference invites participants who can contribute to the exploration of a range of themes related to the ILO’s work. These include:

 

Global Workers, Global Supply Chains, Global Lives

Gender, Sexuality and Labor Rights

Building Workplace Power and Global Workers' Rights

On Shifting Ground: Labor Standards, Policy and the Future of Work

 

Please send paper, presentation, or panel proposals to kilwp@georgetown.edu.  Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2018.