The ILO’s Centenary Declaration and Social Justice in the Digital Age
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Description
This chapter examines some of the Declaration’s key policy prescriptions in light of the approach taken by the Global Commission. In order to highlight the significance of some of the key policy choices, the chapter contrasts the ILO’s approach with that of the World Bank. The Bank, for example, advocates for less progressive taxation and weakened job security protections, while the Global Commission takes the opposite tack. Unsurprisingly, the ILO has long resisted many of the Bank’s proposals for deregulatory economic policies which are seen as cutting against ‘the ILO’s raison d’être’, but this makes the contrast all the more instructive for those seeking to locate the Declaration in terms of its policy significance and trying to evaluate its underlying assumptions.
Source Publication
ILO100: Law for Social Justice
Source Editors/Authors
George P. Politakis, Tomi Kohiyama, Thomas Lieby
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G. and Gandour, Jackson, "The ILO’s Centenary Declaration and Social Justice in the Digital Age" (2019). Faculty Chapters. 24.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/24
