title: 4. A Place in the New Order
abstract: When the transition to the new world order began, the International Labour Organization (ILO) found itself once again relegated to a back seat. Before the Organization could eventually join the United Nations in 1946, it was more than once confronted with its precarious position within the new power constellation that had been established at the end of the Second World War. The open hostility of the Soviet Union towards the ILO and the Organization's reliance on the Western bloc turned out to be