History and Results of Labor Standard Initiatives: An Event History and Panel Analysis of the Ratification Patterns, and Effects,of the International Labor Organization¿s first Child Labor Convention

Abstract

Title and Contents Introduction 7 Outline 10 Part 1 12 1\. History and current relevance of protecting core labor standards 12 2\. Fundamental labor and social standards: a definition 14 3\. Initiatives and strategies to promote labor standards 16 4\. Which labor standards have to be implemented regardless of intra-national factors? 44 5\. Recent trends in core labor standard dimensions 49 Part II 55 1\. Why focus on child labor? 55 2\. Hypothesis 62 3\. Operationalization, data, and methods 74 4\. Discussion 79 5\. Conclusion 94 Part III 95 1\. Testing different linkages 95 2\. Social movement literature review 102 3\. Definitions 125 4\. Operationalizing a social movement 129 5\. Hypothesis: the success of the unruly 136 6\. Sample and data analysis 139 7\. Results and discussion: David against Goliath 140 8\. Conclusion: the radical flank effect 143 Overall conclusion and research questions 144 Literature 147 Appendix 183