Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: S.Kott & J.Droux PART I: TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND MILIEUS AROUND THE ILO Social and Political Networks and the Creation of the ILO: The Role of British Actors; O.Hidalgo-Weber The ILO and Other International Actors in 20th Century Accident Insurance in Switzerland and Germany; M.Lengwiler The International Labour Organisation, Feminists and Expert Networks: the Challenges of a Protective Policy (1919-1934); N.Natchkova & C.Schoeni PART II: THE ILO AND THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL STANDARDS Modern Unemployment: from the Creation of the Concept to the International Labour Office's First Standards; I.Liebeskind-Sauthier ILO Expertise and Colonial Violence in the Interwar Years; J.P.Daughton The Contribution of the ILO to the Formation of the Public International Cooperative Law; H.Henrÿ The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944-1966; J.Guthrie PART III: THE ILO AND NATIONAL SPACES: FROM SOCIAL NORMS TO SOCIAL RIGHTS Global Corporatism after World War I: The Indian Case; M.Herren Dictatorship and International Organizations: The ILO as a 'test ground' for Fascism; S.Gallo US New Deal Social Policy Experts and the ILO, 1948-1954; J.Jensen Industrial States and Transnational Exchanges of Social Policies. Belgium and the ILO in the Interwar Period; J.Van Daele The ILO as a Forum for Developing and Demonstrating a Nordic Model; P.Kettunen PART IV: COMPETING SOCIAL MODELS: THE ILO AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL BODIES What's in a Living Standard? Bringing Society and Economy together in the ILO and the League of Nation's Depression Delegation, 1938-1945; P.Clavin Developing Nutritional Standards and Food Policy: Latin American Reformers between the ILO, the League of Nations Health Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau; C.Pernet From Inter-Agency Concurrences to Transnational Collaborations: The ILO Contribution to Child Welfare Issues during the Interwar Years; J.Droux Pension Privatization: The Transnational Campaign; M.Orenstein The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and its Challenger: the ILO, the OECD, and the Crisis of the Welfare State (1975-1985); M.Leimgruber