ASSIGNMENT ON INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION.

Running Head: INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION
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Introduction
International labor organization is a United Nations organization that aims at enhancing
social justice and promoting decency in work by setting universal standards of work. The agents
from the regime, proprietors, and workers hold open debates and come up with employment
principles. The comprehensive labor office is the permanent secretariat of the universal labor
organization, and it is the pivotal point of the administration's general activities prepared under
the inspection of the central agency with the director-general as the over-seer. The International
labor organization is well known for maintaining peace among countries, pursuing decency in
the working environment and justice for laborers, improving technical assistance to the
developing states, among other issues. The ILO is a competent body that is set to deal with
standards. It affirms its support for its work in promoting the measure. The agency believes that
economic development fostered by the increased level of trade liberalization that contributes to
the promotion of these standards (Di Ruggiero, Cohen, & Cole, 2015).
History of the Global Labor Organization
The ILO was started as an agency for the League of Nations after World War 1. The
primary associates knew each other earlier and possessed reserved proficient and conceptual
systems whereby they exchanged knowledge on social policies. Zeal, for a makeable society,
triggered the communal business of ILO designers. International labor progressively became a
tool that could put workers' policies into practice (Boris, 2014). The agency had utopian ideas
concerning social justice, and the right to decency in work was transformed by political
negotiations that were made at the Paris peace conference indicating a balance amid
impracticality and logicality in ILO. Later, the universal labor program projected a program

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meant to protect the salaried class, which was perceived as compensation for those who
participated in the war (Lyons, 2017).
Mission
The ILO is dedicated to endorsing communal impartiality and recognizing labor rights
and pursues its essential factor that universal and lasting peace is necessary (Guthrie, 2016). ILO
works in advancing the economic conditions that offer all workers peace and prosperity in their
progression. The ILO has several objectives including;
Setting and promoting standards and vital principles and rights in the workplace
Creating advanced chances for females and men to work in garbed workplaces and earn a good
income, enhance the coverage and influence of communal fortification for all, and also
strengthen relations and social discourse in the workplace (Di Ruggiero, Cohen, & Cole, 2015).
Effectiveness of ILO
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The international labor agency gives much focus on the advancement of people. Labor is
recognized as a non-living produce that can be settled by the bottommost or uppermost price
ILO gives a worldwide permissible organization aimed at achieving fair and steady
globalization. This is achieved by making promotion to the standards to meet these standards
through elaboration and promotion of measures that permit economic growth and also create a
suitable working environment (Baccini & Koenig-Archibugi, 2014).
The labor standards give opportunities to learn on how challenges facing the labor sector
can be controlled and avoided by evaluating various experiences across the globe.
The labor standards guarantee a level playing area in the universal economy. The ILO supports
the government and employees to avoid the enticements of abridging the labor standards. The