Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Dorothea Hoehtker, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland; Susan Zimmerman, Professor of History, Department of Gender Studies – Department of History, Central European University

With the passage of “Decent Work for Domestic Workers,” Convention No. 189 in June 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) re-emerged as a venue for wage earning women to demand economic justice. The planned collaborative volume Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Working Conditions, and Gender Equality, to become part of the ILO Century Series published by Palgrave, gives a history to the involvement of women in the ILO and the ways that gender entered into the construction of global labor standards. We ask, what role have women’s networks played inside and outside the ILO to improve working conditions for women and gender equality? How … read more and source (Web)