Possibilities of United States Collaboration with the International Labor Organization

THE uses which we in the United States can make of the International Labor Organization-and it of us-must grow out of understanding of the character of the Organization itself. That character has been described elsewhere in this volume. One object of the International Labor Organization is to secure substantially common minimum standards of labor conditions throughout the world and thus to minimize unfair competition in international trade through exploitation of labor. The value of the Organization, therefore, should be greatest to the countries in which conditions of labor are higher than in the so-called backward nations. From this point of view it would be to the interest of the United States to join the Organization in order to strengthen that group of countries in the Organization which have high labor standards, and to work for the improvement of labor conditions in the countries which at the present time have a great competitive advantage through low labor costs

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• Internationalism in Current American Labor Policy

  Open Access•Francis G Wilson•American Political Science Review•1934

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