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Title Globalizing social rights : the International Labour Organization and beyond / edited by Sandrine Kott and Joëlle Droux
Published Geneva : International Labour Office, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages)
Series ILO century series ; v. 2
International Labour Organization century series.
Contents Transnational networks and milieus around the ILO -- Social and political networks and the creation of the ILO: the role of British actors / Olga Hidalgo-Weber -- The ILO and other international actors in 20th-century accident insurance in Switzerland and Germany / Martin Lengwiler -- The ILO, feminists and expert networks: the challenges of a protective policy (1919-1934) / Nora Natchkova and Céline Schoeni -- The ILO and the production of social standards -- Modern unemployment: from the creation of the concept to the International Labour Office's first standards / Ingrid Liebeskind Sauthier -- ILO expertise and colonial violence in the interwar years / J.P. Daughton -- The contribution of the ILO to the formation of public international cooperative law / Hagen Henrÿ -- The ILO and the international technocratic class, 1944-1966 / Jason Guthrie -- The ILO and national spaces: from social norms to social rights -- Global corporatism after the First World War-the Indian case / Madeleine Herren -- Dictatorship and international organizations: the ILO as a 'test ground' for Fascism / Stefano Gallo -- US New Deal social policy experts and the ILO, 1948-1954 / Jill Jensen -- Industrial states and transnational exchanges of social policies: Belgium and the ILO in the interwar period / Jasmien Van Daele -- The ILO as a forum for developing and demonstrating a Nordic model / Pauli Kettunen -- 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 Nations Depression Delegation, 1938-1945 / Patricia 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 / Corinne A. Pernet -- From inter-agency competition to transnational cooperation: the ILO contribution to child welfare issues during the interwar years / Joëlle Droux -- Pension privatization: the transnational campaign / Mitchell A. Orenstein -- The embattled standard-bearer of social insurance and its challenger: the ILO, the OECD and the 'crisis of the welfare state', 1975-1985 / Matthieu Leimgruber
Summary Focusing on the ILO, this volume explores its role as creator of international social networks and facilitator of exchange between various national and international actors since its establishment in 1919. It emphasizes the role played by the ILO in the international circulation of ideas, expertise and practices that foster the emergence and shaping of international social models, and examines the impact of its methods and models on national and local societies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject International Labour Organization -- History
International Labour Organization
Social rights -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Social rights
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kott, Sandrine.
Droux, Joëlle.
ISBN 9789221266198
9221266192