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

该项目探讨了世纪国际劳工监管制度的形成，及其对工人阶级组织和动员的影响，以及国家层面的不平等。研究的重点是1919-1999年期间国际劳工组织通过的劳工公约，以及国际劳工组织成员国批准这些公约的模式。新兴世界文化和世界政体的新制度主义理论为理解世界范围内象征性结构和制度形式的扩散提供了一个有用的框架，但它们往往不强调机构，权力和冲突的问题。全球阶级冲突的方法（世界系统理论，依赖发展理论，依赖理论）有助于在全球剥削，分层，依赖和冲突模式的背景下，国际劳工组织的全球劳工制度的形成。这些不同的理论观点产生了一些假设，涉及国际劳工组织通过新公约，国际劳工组织成员国批准公约的模式，以及国际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随着时间的推移劳动制度的形成，并了解各种社会联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国际劳工组织成员国对国际劳工组织公约的批准情况，以及成员国在国家一级融入国际劳工组织监管制度的不同程度对工人阶级组织和动员以及不平等的影响。定性比较分析，从一个较小的样本劳工组织成员国的丰富的历史数据，更详细地探讨国家融入劳工组织的监管制度和工人阶级的组织和动员之间的关系。这些分析的数据来自多个来源：瑞士日内瓦国际劳工组织中央图书馆收集的档案数据;国际劳工组织出版物;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。这项研究有助于我们了解影响世界劳动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。这项研究的结果应该有助于国际劳工法规，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.