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The project aims to organize and consolidate existing historical information on the ILO and its work, and fill gaps both by undertaking research within the project and by stimulating work by external researchers and research communities. More details about information and documentation systems can be found through the links to the ILO Library and Archives under “information resources”.
A volume on ILO ideas and their impact
The first major product of the research programme will be an overview volume on ILO ideas and their impact throughout its history (to be published on the occasion of the ILO’s 90th anniversary in 2009). The volume will look at key areas of social progress in the course of the 20th Century and early 21st Century, and examine where and how the ILO’s ideas and actions have supported or led change, and their cumulative impact in different parts of the world. Subjects which are being examined include human rights and rights at work; tripartism and labour standards; the quality of work; social protection and the welfare state; growth, employment and poverty reduction; and the international social and economic policy.
In depth studies
Alongside the overview volume, a number of papers are being written on particular issues or time periods in the ILO’s history. The subjects include child labour, migration, wages, working time, tripartism, growth and employment, social protection, decolonization, Apartheid, economic and social policy, occupational safety and health and other issues.
For a full list of studies and to access draft papers (where available) see “papers and publications” under “information resources”.
Country level studies
Research is planned in a number of individual countries on the relationship between the ILO’s work and national economic and social policy development. See also “national activities” under “debate and dialogue”.
Other research
The project is also contributing to broader research conferences, such as the conference organized by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and Ghent University on The ILO: Past and Present, in Brussels in October 2007.
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