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The survival and current prospering of the International Labour Organisation is in part an effect of Director-General activism. It is, therefore, an excellent case study of the impact of executive leadership in international organizations. From its creation in 1919, Directors-General have actively steered the ILO through the collapse of the League of Nations, through the inclusion of the ILO in the United Nations system, and through the difficulties created by the Cold War. Since the 1980s, that same activism has helped to reconfigure the ILO to meet the challenges of, first, change in the ILO’s orientation and organization, second, globalisation, and third, the 2008 global economic crisis. Two recent Directors-General – Michel Hansenne and Juan Somavia – have sustained that tradition of activism, in terms of the refocusing of ILO efforts, improving ILO organizational performance and building links between the ILO and other international agencies.
Author(s): Haworth N, Hughes S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Submitted
Journal: Review of International Political Economy
Year: 2012
Print publication date: 01/09/2011
ISSN (print): 0969-2290
ISSN (electronic): 1466-4526
Publisher: Routledge
