Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Tables -- Table 2.1 Ratifications of ILO Conventions in the fields of OccupationalSafety and Social Security by Switzerland (1919-2000) -- Table 2.2 Activities of the Swiss Institute for Accident Insurance (Suva) 1918-1990 -- Table 16.1 Varieties of pension privatization worldwide, 1981-2006 -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: A Global History Written from the ILO -- Part 1. Transnational Networks and Milieus around the ILO -- 1. Social and Political Networks and the Creation of the ILO:The Role of British Actors -- 2. The ILO and Other International Actors in 20 th-century Accident Insurance in Switzerland and Germany -- 3. The ILO, Feminists and Expert Networks: The Challenges of a Protective Policy (1919-1934) -- Part 2. The ILO and the Production of Social Standards -- 4. Modern Unemployment: From the Creation of the Concept to the International Labour Office's First Standards -- 5. ILO Expertise and Colonial Violence in the Interwar Years -- 6. The Contribution of the ILO to the Formation of Public International Cooperative Law -- 7. The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944-1966 -- Part 3. The ILO and National Spaces: From Social Norms to Social Rights -- 8. Global Corporatism after the First World War - the Indian Case -- 9. Dictatorship and International Organizations: The ILO as a 'Test Ground' for Fascism -- 10. US New Deal Social Policy Experts and the ILO, 1948-1954 -- 11. Industrial States and Transnational Exchanges of Social Policies: Belgium and the ILO in the Interwar Period -- 12. The ILO as a Forum for Developing and Demonstrating a Nordic Model -- Part 4. Competing Social Models: The ILO and Other International Bodies.

13. What's in a Living Standard? Bringing Society and Economy Together in the ILO and the League of Nations Depression Delegation, 1938-1945 -- 14. Developing Nutritional Standards and Food Policy: Latin American Reformers between the ILO, the League of Nations Health Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau -- 15. From Inter-agency Competition to Transnational Cooperation: The ILO Contribution to Child Welfare Issues during the Interwar Years -- 16. Pension Privatization: The Transnational Campaign -- 17. The Embattled Standard- bearer of Social Insurance and Its Challenger:The ILO, the OECD and the 'Crisis of the Welfare State', 1975-1985 -- Bibliography -- Index.