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Reports on the annual conference of the International Labor Organization in Geneva in June 1993, at which over 130 countries attended with each sending delegations of labour, business and government officials. Takes note of the air of uncertainty that surrounded the proceedings in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse and the capitalist shift of investment to the global south. Provides a snapshot of the discussion with an edited synopsis of interviews with a number of conference attendees, with the exception of the Canadian Autoworkers' Sam Gindin who was interviewed in June 1994 following the signing of NAFTA. Themes explored include the global economy, policy dilemmas facing the ILO, transnational strategies and the labour movement, and intellectual activists and labour history. The interviewees included Philip Bowyer, James Burge, Hans Engelberts, Dan Galeen, Sam Gindin, Charles Gray, Philip Jennings, Denis MacShane, Herbert Maier, and Charles Spring.