Research Catalog

Title

Globalizing social rights : the International Labour Organization and beyond / edited by Sandrine Kott, Professor of European Contemporary History, University of Geneva and Joëlle Droux, Senior Lecturer in History of Education, University of Geneva.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kott, Sandrine.
• Droux, Joëlle.
• International Labour Organization.

Description

xv, 346 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

International Labour Organization (ILO) century series

Uniform Title

International Labour Organization century series.

Subjects

• International Labour Organization History
• Social rights > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-327) and index.

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.

Call Number

JBD 13-411

ISBN

• 9780230343658
• 0230343651

LCCN

2012040924

OCLC

802321062

Title

Globalizing social rights : the International Labour Organization and beyond / edited by Sandrine Kott, Professor of European Contemporary History, University of Geneva and Joëlle Droux, Senior Lecturer in History of Education, University of Geneva.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

International Labour Organization (ILO) century series

International Labour Organization century series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-327) and index.

Added Author

Kott, Sandrine.

Droux, Joëlle.

International Labour Organization.

Research Call Number

JBD 13-411