| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy. By Edward C. Lorenz. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. x, 318 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-268-02550-9. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-268-02551-7.)

Edward C. Lorenz's history of American involvement in the movement to establish international labor standards provides a useful look at an understudied subject. Lorenz, who teaches history and political science at Alma College, focuses in particular on the American experience with the International Labor Organization (ILO). Created by the Versailles Treaty that formally ended World War I, the ILO has been the chief institutional mechanism over the past eighty years for developing international labor standards. The organization has a special place in American history, Lorenz rightly points out, because the ILO was the only one of the three multinational entities created by the Versailles Treaty (the two others being the League of Nations and the World Court) that the United States ever joined. . . .

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