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Stable ID
entity-international-labour-organization-cooperatives
Entity kind
intergovernmental organization programme
Category
Public interest, governance, culture, and capital
Geography
International
Editorial reviewer
GShips Project editorial synthesis
Official link checked
2026-07-25

Profile boundary

The International Labour Organization's cooperatives work develops policy, standards-related guidance, research, and capacity support for cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy within the ILO's decent-work mandate.

Evidence boundary: The official ILO pages establish cooperative-policy and decent-work activity; they do not show a generation-ship programme, bespoke assistance availability, legal applicability beyond current jurisdictions, or endorsement of GShips.

Potentially relevant capability areas

  • Cooperative and social-economy policy, decent-work principles, worker and employer participation, research, training resources, and international labour standards context.

Task-specific matches

A match is bounded to one declared work program. It does not establish a partnership, availability, endorsement, or an organization-wide rank.

  • No task-specific match is recorded.

Potential fit—not a relationship

Its public guidance could inform Earthside experiments in worker voice, shared ownership, apprenticeship, fair compensation, social protection, and accountable cooperative enterprise. It cannot by itself resolve rights or labour governance in an isolated future habitat.

Possible bounded engagement, not undertaken: Proposed, not undertaken: review applicable ILO instruments and cooperative resources and map them to an Earthside testbed; only approach a published programme after confirming mandate, eligibility, and separate outreach authorization.

Fit and engagement risks

  • ILO instruments bind or guide present-day member states and do not automatically govern an off-Earth community.
  • Programme assistance and participation may be limited by mandate, geography, constituency, funding, and schedule.
  • Treating cooperative form as a complete governance solution could obscure coercion, unequal bargaining power, or non-worker rights.

What would change this profile?

A relevant ILO call, authorized technical exchange, or reviewed Earthside cooperative pilot using ILO principles would sharpen the fit; legal analysis would still be required for each operating jurisdiction.

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Assumptions and limits

  • The official ILO pages establish cooperative-policy and decent-work activity; they do not show a generation-ship programme, bespoke assistance availability, legal applicability beyond current jurisdictions, or endorsement of GShips.
  • Potential fit is an editorial hypothesis. Inclusion does not establish affiliation, endorsement, procurement eligibility, or a relationship.

What would change this page?

A relevant ILO call, authorized technical exchange, or reviewed Earthside cooperative pilot using ILO principles would sharpen the fit; legal analysis would still be required for each operating jurisdiction.

People, review, and conflicts

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Editorial status
substantive editorial profile; independent review pending
Editorial reviewer
GShips Project editorial synthesis
Last editorial review
No editorial-review date recorded
Independent review
pending
Independent reviewer
No independent reviewer assigned
Last independent review
No independent-review date exists
Last content edit
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Official source or link verified
2026-07-25

Declared conflicts

  • GShips' publisher intends to explore a venture whose labour and ownership model could be evaluated against the indexed guidance.
  • The maintainer intends to explore a commercial venture based on some GShips work. No entity, outside funding, customer, sponsor, or indexed-organization relationship currently exists.

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