Globalizing Social Rights

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.

PATRICIA CLAVIN Fellow and Tutor of History at Jesus College Oxford, and Professor of International History in the History Faculty of Oxford University, UK J.P. DAUGHTON Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, USA STEFANO GALLO obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pisa, Italy JASON GUTHRIE PhD candidate in history at the University of Maryland College Park, USA HAGEN HENRY Research Director at the University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland MADELEINE HERREN Professor of History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany OLGA HIDALGO-WEBER Research Assistant and PHD candidate at Geneva University, Switzerland JILL JENSEN Visiting Assistant Professor with the Project for Global Workers Rights at The Pennsylvania State University, USA PAULI KETTUNEN Professor of Political History at the University of Helsinki, Finland MATTHIEU LEIMGRUBER Swiss National Foundation Research Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland MARTIN LENGWILER Professor for Modern History at the Department of History, University of Basle, Switzerland INGRID LIEBESKIND SAUTHIER History Teacher. From 2008 to 2010, post-doctoral researcher, Swiss National Fund/University of Geneva, Switzerland NORA NATCHKOVA Researcher on the International Labour Organisation and women's work during the Trente Glorieuses MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA CORINNE A. PERNET SNSF Professor of History at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland CÉLINE SCHOENI Researcher on the International Labour Organisation and women's work during the Trente Glorieuses JASMIEN VAN DAELE Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium

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PATRICIA CLAVIN Fellow and Tutor of History at Jesus College Oxford, and Professor of International History in the History Faculty of Oxford University, UK J.P. DAUGHTON Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, USA STEFANO GALLO obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pisa, Italy JASON GUTHRIE PhD candidate in history at the University of Maryland College Park, USA HAGEN HENRY Research Director at the University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland MADELEINE HERREN Professor of History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany OLGA HIDALGO-WEBER Research Assistant and PHD candidate at Geneva University, Switzerland JILL JENSEN Visiting Assistant Professor with the Project for Global Workers Rights at The Pennsylvania State University, USA PAULI KETTUNEN Professor of Political History at the University of Helsinki, Finland MATTHIEU LEIMGRUBER Swiss National Foundation Research Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland MARTIN LENGWILER Professor for Modern History at the Department of History, University of Basle, Switzerland INGRID LIEBESKIND SAUTHIER History Teacher. From 2008 to 2010, post-doctoral researcher, Swiss National Fund/University of Geneva, Switzerland NORA NATCHKOVA Researcher on the International Labour Organisation and women's work during the Trente Glorieuses MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA CORINNE A. PERNET SNSF Professor of History at theUniversity of St. Gallen, Switzerland CÉLINE SCHOENI Researcher on the International Labour Organisation and women's work during the Trente Glorieuses JASMIEN VAN DAELE Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium

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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.DrouxPension 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