Entre a expans o e a sobrevivência: a viagem de Albert Thomas ao Cone Sul da América

This article analyzes the relationships between the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the countries of South America, specifically, with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguayand Chile. To present this relationship, our analysis focuses on a specific time, the travel that the General Director of the ILO, Albert Thomas, did to these countries in 1925. This travel aimed to: present the actions of the ILO on these countries and to collect information about the situation of work and the workers in these countries. It also intended to breathe life into a relationship with yet little mutual interest. For a better understanding we have made a brief presentation of the creation of the ILO and its first General Secretary.