The explosive rise of East Asia and continuing importance of Central America and Mexico have shifted the centre of world export manufacturing from the North Atlantic to the Pacific Rim. This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and present, transnational and within a single nation, to advance social and economic reform in this vast region. Co-published with Palgrave Macmillan as part of the ILO Century series.