Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond (International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series)

Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national and international contexts. This collection brings together a variety of new scholarship by a group of highly qualified and internationally renowned scholars. 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 Describes the role and activities of the ILO through the three mains means of the organization: standards setting, technical cooperation and research. Provides unique insights on the current globalization process and the possible ways and means for developing new forms of global governance