Labor abuses in Ivory Coast drove the ILO’s forced labor treaty movement

Evidence

Kair claimed that local government’s continued “excesses” had precipitated the ILO’s movement to organize an international treaty condemning forced labor generally. Kair’s reports attributed such abuses in part to an exceptional number of Europeans in the colony, and in part to the ambiguities of Carde’s new labor legislation. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 847

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to a reader’s interest in how colonial practices in West Africa provoked international legal responses — parallels other chapters on international scrutiny of French empire.