ILO labour standards embedded a Western normative vision of the family

Evidence

As ILO officials believed ‘the disruption of family life’ threatened stability, they promoted the phasing out of children’s employment and the regulation of the employment of women, and advised that employers of migratory workers take account of ‘their normal family needs’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior theme of moral panics over modesty — both involve Western normative family visions being exported. — connects to: The ILO propagated a European-administered moral order that normalised colonial wage labour — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 241; CPS definitions apply white middle-class norms to families with differing community standards — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10375; Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe #corroborates (0.80)
• CPS definitions apply white middle-class norms to families with differing community standards #corroborates (0.78) — , The Rod and the Child, 10375
• Bourgeois flourishing depended on father’s societal role grounding family authority and education #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 620
• Europe’s domestic feudalism grounded its international balance-of-power norms #corroborates (0.72)