Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: A Global History Written from the ILO....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Social and Political Networks and the Creation of the ILO: The Role of British Actors....Pages 17-31
The ILO and Other International Actors in 20th-century Accident Insurance in Switzerland and Germany....Pages 32-48
The ILO, Feminists and Expert Networks: The Challenges of a Protective Policy (1919–1934)....Pages 49-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Modern Unemployment: From the Creation of the Concept to the International Labour Office’s First Standards....Pages 67-84
ILO Expertise and Colonial Violence in the Interwar Years....Pages 85-97
The Contribution of the ILO to the Formation of Public International Cooperative Law....Pages 98-114
The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944–1966....Pages 115-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Global Corporatism after the First World War — the Indian Case....Pages 137-152
Dictatorship and International Organizations: The ILO as a ‘Test Ground’ for Fascism....Pages 153-171
US New Deal Social Policy Experts and the ILO, 1948–1954....Pages 172-189
Industrial States and Transnational Exchanges of Social Policies: Belgium and the ILO in the Interwar Period....Pages 190-209
The ILO as a Forum for Developing and Demonstrating a Nordic Model....Pages 210-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
What’s in a Living Standard? Bringing Society and Economy Together in the ILO and the League of Nations Depression Delegation, 1938–1945....Pages 233-248
Developing Nutritional Standards and Food Policy: Latin American Reformers between the ILO, the League of Nations Health Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau....Pages 249-261
From Inter-agency Competition to Transnational Cooperation: The ILO Contribution to Child Welfare Issues during the Interwar Years....Pages 262-279
Pension Privatization: The Transnational Campaign....Pages 280-292
The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and Its Challenger: The ILO, The OECD and the ‘Crisis of the Welfare State’, 1975–1985....Pages 293-309
Back Matter....Pages 310-346