Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labor Organization and Beyond

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. By analyzing the case of the ILO, the authors rethink the influence of international organizations in the shaping of the contemporary world and the emergence of a global civil society. This collection brings together a variety of new scholarship by a group of highly qualified and internationally renowned scholars in the fields of global history and the history of international organizations.

Copublished with Palgrave Macmillan as part of the ILO Century Series

Sandrine Kott is professor of European contemporary history at the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on social welfare in Europe and labor in socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

Joëlle Droux is a scientific collaborator at the psychology and educational sciences departments of the University of Geneva, where she specializes in the history of international child welfare movements, social and humanitarian networks during the 20th century, and the long-term evolution of Swiss child and youth welfare policies.