Knowledge shared between latin america and the international labor organization: a contemporary historiographical account [saberes compartidos entre américa latina y la organización internacional del trabajo: un recuento historiográfico contemporáneo]

Regarding the centenary of the International Labor Organization (ILO), this article establishes a historical and thematic account that reaffirms that Latin America and the ILO jointly built a field of technical and political knowledge, which allows for a new interpretation of a global or connected history, over national borders, and privileging a regional scale. Contrary to the ILO itself and its official centenary historians, who continue to reconstruct a history with a Eurocentric gaze, this account contribution that Latin America, through the encouragement of political leaders, unions, businessmen and intellectuals, granted to the Geneva organization to present yourself as a possible actor to try to fulfill your mission, to determine universal peace and establish social justice.