EAN: 9783110777147

SOCIAL REFORM MODERNIZATION AND TECHNICAL DIPLO...

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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