Globalizing Social Rights

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Global History Written from the ILO

Chapter 2 Social and Political Networks and the Creation of the ILO: The Role of British Actors

Chapter 3 The ILO and Other International Actors in 20th-century Accident Insurance in Switzerland and Germany

Chapter 4 The ILO, Feminists and Expert Networks: The Challenges of a Protective Policy (1919–1934)

Chapter 5 Modern Unemployment: From the Creation of the Concept to the International Labour Office’s First Standards

Chapter 7 The Contribution of the ILO to the Formation of Public International Cooperative Law

Chapter 8 The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944–1966

Chapter 9 Global Corporatism after the First World War — the Indian Case

Chapter 10 Dictatorship and International Organizations: The ILO as a ‘Test Ground’ for Fascism

Chapter 11 US New Deal Social Policy Experts and the ILO, 1948–1954

Chapter 12 Industrial States and Transnational Exchanges of Social Policies: Belgium and the ILO in the Interwar Period

Chapter 13 The ILO as a Forum for Developing and Demonstrating a Nordic Model

Chapter 14 What’s in a Living Standard? Bringing Society and Economy Together in the ILO and the League of Nations Depression Delegation, 1938–1945

Chapter 15 Developing Nutritional Standards and Food Policy: Latin American Reformers between the ILO, the League of Nations Health Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau

Chapter 16 From Inter-agency Competition to Transnational Cooperation: The ILO Contribution to Child Welfare Issues during the Interwar Years

Chapter 17 Pension Privatization: The Transnational Campaign

Chapter 18 The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and Its Challenger: The ILO, The OECD and the ‘Crisis of the Welfare State’, 1975–1985