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Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy - The ILO Contribution to Development (1930-1946) (Paperback)
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Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy - The ILO Contribution to Development (1930-1946) (Paperback)
Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective
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Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the
League of Nations' system, the ILO is still today the main
organization responsible for the international organization of work
and the improvement of working conditions in the world. Widely
recognized for its efforts in building international labour
standards, the ILO remains little studied by development
specialists and historians. This book intends to fill this gap and
traces the history of international development and its early
pioneers, through an analysis of the activities of the
International Labour Office, the Secretariat of the International
Labour Organization, between 1930 and 1946. In this book,
development is used as a key to questioning the ILO's place and
function in the expanding inter-war world. The development
practices and discourses that emerged in the 1930s were mainly
intended to support the ILO's universalization strategy, which was
made necessary by the events that shook Europe at the time.
Development discourses and practices were also part of the "esprit
du temps", as they were closely linked to the affirmation of the
planist and rationalist ideas of the 1930s. However, development
for the ILO was not reduced to a project of economic modernization,
but was seen as a tool for social engineering, as evidenced by the
ILO's missions of technical assistance, organized since 1930. The
analysis of the expertise work makes it possible to highlight the
logics that prevailed in technical assistance, which was more in
line with institutional objectives, than with the dissemination of
a genuine expertise. This book therefore hopes to bring new insight
on the history of internationalism, and international organizations
during the inter-war period and the Second World War, as well as on
the role of the ILO in the history of international development
thinking and practices.
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