Globalizing Social Rights The International Labour Organization and Beyond [Paperback]

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.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.Henr? 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 Delegló,