Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Formation of the ILO International Labor Regulation Regime and its Impact on Class Power and Inequality within Nations

该项目探讨了20世纪国际劳工法规制度的形成及其对国家一级工人阶级的组织和动员以及不平等的影响。研究的重点是国际劳工组织通过的劳工公约，以及劳工组织成员国在1919-1999年间批准这些公约的情况。关于新兴世界文化和世界政治的新制度主义理论为理解象征结构和制度形式在世界范围内的扩散提供了一个有用的框架，但它们往往淡化代理、权力和冲突的问题。全球阶级冲突方法(世界系统理论、依赖发展理论、依赖理论)有助于将劳工组织全球劳工制度的形成置于剥削、分层、依赖和冲突的全球模式的背景下。这些不同的理论观点提出了一些关于劳工组织通过新公约的假设、劳工组织成员国批准公约的方式以及劳工组织公约对工人阶级动员和组织的影响。网络方法被用来描述劳动制度随着时间的推移而形成的过程，并理解各种社会关系在国家和公约网络形成中的作用。事件历史分析用于分析劳工组织成员批准劳工组织公约的情况，以及成员国在不同程度上融入劳工组织监管制度对国家一级工人阶级的组织和动员以及不平等的影响。采用定性比较分析，结合较小样本的劳工组织成员的更丰富的历史数据，更详细地探讨各国融入劳工组织监管制度与工人阶级组织和动员之间的关系。这些分析的数据来自以下来源：在瑞士日内瓦劳工组织中央图书馆收集的档案数据；劳工组织出版物；宾夕法尼亚大学世界表格；联合国和世界银行的各种数据集；现有的二手文献。这一研究有助于我们理解影响世界劳工监管制度形成和影响的因素。它揭示了国际治理结构在经济全球化进程中的作用。这项研究的发现应该有助于在国际劳工法规、国际人权和国际发展领域的政策辩论。

This project explores the formation of an international labor regulatory regime in the 20th century, and its effects on working class organization and mobilization, and inequality, at the national level. The research focuses on the labor conventions adopted by the International Labor Organization, and patterns of ratifications of these conventions by the ILO member countries, between 1919-1999. Neo-institutionalist theories of an emergent world culture and world polity provide a useful framework for understanding the diffusion of symbolic constructs and institutional forms on a world scale, but they tend to de-emphasize questions of agency, power and conflict. Global class conflict approaches (world systems theory, dependent development theory, dependency theory) help to situate the formation of the ILO's global labor regime in the context of global patterns of exploitation, stratification, dependence and conflict. These different theoretical perspectives give rise to a number of hypotheses concerning the ILO's adoption of new conventions, the patterns of convention ratifications by ILO member countries, and the effects of ILO conventions on working class mobilization and organization. Network methods are used to describe the formation of the labor regime over time, and to understand the role of various kinds of social ties in the formation of the network of countries and conventions. Event history analysis is used to analyze ILO members' ratifications of ILO conventions, and the effects of member countries' varying levels of integration into the ILO regulatory regime on working class organization and mobilization, and inequality, at the national level. Qualitative Comparative Analyses are used, with richer historical data from a smaller sample of ILO members, to explore in more detail the relationships between countries' integration into the ILO regulatory regime and working class organization and mobilization. The data for these analyses are drawn from a number of sources: archival data collected at the central library of the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland; ILO publications; Penn World Tables; various UN and World Bank datasets; existing secondary literature. This research contributes to our understanding of the factors affecting the formation and impact of a world labor regulatory regime. It sheds light on the role of international governance structures in the process of economic globalization. Findings from this research should contribute to policy debates in the fields of international labor regulation, international human rights, and international development.