The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944–1966

Guthrie, Jason Lee

doi:10.1057/9781137291967_8

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“…In the thirties, it began to develop technical cooperation activities, first with Latin America. These technical cooperation activities grew with international development programmes after 1945 (Guthrie, 2013). The aims and purposes of the ilo became larger after the International Labour Conference of 1944, taking in welfare, including several missions on the protection of health.…”

Section: Before the 1990s A Vision Based On Wage Labourmentioning

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The ILO @ 100

Gironde¹,

Carbonnier²

2019

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On the occasion of the centenary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), we are pleased to introduce this 11th special issue of International Development Policy, which explores the Organization's capacity for action, its effectiveness and its ability to adapt and innovate.The moral idea, 'If you desire peace, cultivate justice' , which lay at the heart of the ILO's foundation one hundred years ago, remains just as relevant today, in a world undergoing profound economic and technological transformation and increasing global inequality. How has the ILO adapted to change over time? What steps has the Organization taken to protect the most vulnerable? How well is it prepared and positioned to confront the new challenges of digitisation, automation and the 'uberisation' of work?This collection of thirteen articles, written by twenty-one authors from around the world, attempts to address these questions in three parts. Part 1 looks at the ILO's historic context, its functioning and decision-making process and the contemporary challenges it faces; Part 2 explores approaches and results in relation to labour and social protection; and Part 3 considers the changes shaping the future of work. The articles highlight the progress and gaps to date, as well as the constraints and circumstances that confront the ILO in its efforts to respond to the new dilemmas and challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, with regard to labour and social protection.Articles in this issue were the subject of lively exchanges during and after an author's workshop held in Geneva in September 2017 and we are grateful for the substantive comments of the anonymous reviewer and others who commented on earlier drafts. We also thank the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the État de Genève for their financial support.We hope this collection will make a positive contribution to the reflections and debates around the hundredth anniversary of the ILO and will resonate among our readership of scholars and practitioners, thanks to its timely and relevant focus on issues affecting all of us in our working lives and beyond.

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Section: Before the 1990s A Vision Based On Wage Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ILO @ 100

Gironde¹,

Carbonnier²

2019

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“…This characterizes labor issues as necessarily apolitical, technical, and streamlined. It also made the ILO more broadly an institution of technical assistance in the interwar years; although it was only by the end of World War II did the ILO form its ‘international technocratic class’ (Guthrie, 2013: 115–136). While Butler emphasized the legal recognition of trade unions as a necessary step toward Egypt’s admission to the ILO and its participation in the tripartite system of representation, he stressed the need to confine the functions of syndicates to representation of their workers’ constituency in the workplace and to ‘eschew politics’ (Butler, 1932f: 2).…”

Section: The Global Labor Movement Versus the Ilomentioning

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Reading ‘Class’ in International Law

Taha

2016

Social & Legal Studies

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While critical histories of international law on the interwar period have focused primarily on nationalism, early conceptions of the right to self-determination, and the dynamic of cultural difference, this article brings to bear another dimension that shaped interwar governmentality of legal institutions, namely class subjectivity. How did international institutions manage 'class' in a colonial context and at the height of the 'selfdetermination talk' of the interwar period? Through this inquiry, I study the details of the concrete practices of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in one of its earlier missions sent to Egypt in the 1930s. The claimed success of the ILO's intervention hinged upon shaping a new politics of expertise through law that divided a fluid and hybrid sphere of social activity into rigid and separate domains: the technical and the political.

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Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945

Carter

2018

Global Public Health

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This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. After examining the architecture of these networks, this paper traces their influence on social and health policy in two policy domains: social security and nutrition. Closer scrutiny of a series of international conferences and local media accounts of them reveals that international networks were not just 'conveyor belts' for policy ideas from the industrialised countries of the US and Europe into Latin America; rather, there was often contentious debate over the relevance and appropriateness of health and social policy models in the Latin American context.

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The ILO and the International Technocratic Class, 1944–1966

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

The ILO @ 100

The ILO @ 100

Reading ‘Class’ in International Law

Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945

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