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Project

Ideas, international policy networks, and political transfer in the development of the modern welfare state. An intellectual history of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) between 1930 and 1980
Code
01P09707
Duration
01 December 2008 → 16 April 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Keywords
development international transfer of social policy global labour history welfare state
 
Project description
 

This research focusses on the intellectual role of the International Labour Organisation in the international socio-political debate on the origin and development of the Keynesian welfare state between 1930 and the 1970s. By using the concept of 'political transfer' the ILO will be studied as an idea-generating center, a laboratory of knowledge where new models, paradigms and ideas on the welfare state were generated, exchanged and transferred to national states.