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This quantity of unique essays considers how the foreign Labour association has helped generate a collection of rules and practices, prior and current, transnational and inside a unmarried country, geared toward advancing social and monetary reform within the Pacific Rim.

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J. T. , The Origins of the International Labor Organization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), I, 357–67, quotation 359. 13. The Constitution of the ILO formed Part XIII, or the Labor Section, of the Treaty of Versailles. html; re: the ILO as an anti-Communist buffer, see C. J. Ratzlaff, “The International Labor Organization of the League of Nations: Its Significance to the United States,” American Economic Review, 22 (September, 1932), 455. 14. Although League members automatically became chartered members of the ILO, an opening was also left for non-League members to the join the ILO.

The combination of flaccid international standards and protectionist cocoons by the leading Western sea powers set the stage for the post-1960s rise of flags of convenience as an advance guard of worldwide industrial globalization. For all its travails, however, internationalism on the high seas did not – perhaps could not – go away. It can only be briefly noted here that even as the Atlantic superpowers turned away from the rest of the maritime labouring world, that world did not stand still. In particular, both the Chinese and the Indian seafaring populations – the accursed objects of much Western restrictive activity – already by the Second World War had gained important new leverage.

J. A. Broeze, “The Muscles of Empire: Indian Seamen and the Raj,” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 18 (1981), 43–67; J. Seekings, “The ILO and Welfare Reform in South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, 1925–50,” in J. , ILO Histories. Essays on the International Labour Organization and Its Impact on the World During the Twentieth Century (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), 145–72. 2 The ILO, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region: New Solidarities or Internationalism in the National Interest?

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