Frontmatter -- Foreword / Ryder, Guy -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Antecedents -- Part I. An Experiment in Social Justice: 1919-1939 -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Facing the Crisis -- Part II. The Second Founding: 1940-1948 -- 3. The Road to Philadelphia -- 4. A Place in the New...

An international organization for social justice -- Human rights and rights at work -- The quality of work -- Social protection -- Employment and poverty reduction -- Decent work and a fair globalization -- Appendix I: A chronology of the ILO -- Appendix II: Selected official documents --...