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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791863203321

Titolo

Edward Phelan and the ILO [[electronic resource] ] : the life and views of an international social actor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2009

ISBN

92-2-121984-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

331.0601

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Phelan, the man -- pt. 2. The memoirs of Edward Phelan : the birth of the ILO -- pt. 3. Other writings of Edward Phelan.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a remarkable portrait of Edward J. Phelan (1888-1967), a man who dedicated his life to social justice and whose views and actions guided the work of the ILO for decades. One of a small group of people who mapped out the design of the ILO in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and one of the principal authors of the ILO Constitution, Phelan became the ILO's fourth Director-General in 1941 until his retirement in 1948.