Human Rights, Development and Decolonization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 1-16

3. Prologue: Separate worlds — The ILO and “native labour”, 1919–39

   1. Prologue: Separate worlds — The ILO and “native labour”, 1919–39

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 17-27

4. “A People’s Peace in the Colonies”, 1940–47

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. “The Promise of a New Earth to Till”: The ILO’S Colonial Work in Exile, 1940–43

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 31-58

   3. A Charter for the Colonies: The Colonies at the Philadelphia Conference, 1944

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 59-85

   4. A New World with New Ideas: The ILO and the Quest for a Colonial Post-War Order, 1945–48

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 86-118

5. The Tools of Progress: The ILO, 1948–60

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Principled Development: The Beginnings of the Technical Assistance Programme (TAP)

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 121-151

   3. At Arm’s Length: The ILO and Late Colonial Social Policy

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 152-184

   4. Universal Rights? Standard-Setting against the Backdrop of Late Colonialism, Decolonization and the Cold War

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 185-223

6. A Growing Conflict: Development, Human Rights and Decolonization, 1960–70

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. A New Power: The ILO and the Growing Importance of the Developing World in the 1960s

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 227-258

   3. An Intellectual Fashion: Human Rights Standards as a Barrier to Development?

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 259-285

   4. Conclusion

      • Daniel Maul

      Pages 286-302

7. Back Matter

   Pages 303-412

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An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940–70 opens up new perspectives on the significance of international organisations as actors in the history of the 20th century.

• Cold War
• colonialism
• colonization
• decolonization
• history
• human rights
• IGH
• intellectual history
• International Organisations
• international organizations
• social policy

'Abreak-through in historical scholarship on international politics in the twentieth century in general and on the role of international organizations, human rights and development in particular. It is immensely gratifying to see this excellent book appear in English translation, which makes it available to the large international audience it deserves. A carefully crafted, well-written study, the book will become a standard work for scholars and students in history, political science, human rights and development studies.' - Corinna R. Unger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

'This excellent book offers fresh insights into the complex field of international social policy. After difficult beginnings the International Labour Organization became 'a world en miniature', within which a new state order with new nations and new ideas, hopes, and claims for freedom and human rights emerged in the decades after World War II. The ILO shaped the process of decolonization in manifold ways and, as Daniel Maul shows on the basis of much new evidence, helped to establish a discourse of global responsibility.' -Andreas Eckert, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany

'This is a rich history for scholars of human rights, international organizations, and development, tightly focused on the ILO but not trapped in the halls of its secretariat.' - Roland Burke, La Trobe University, American Historical Review

DANIEL ROGER MAUL Lecturer in the Department of History, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany, and has published widely on the history of globalization and international organizations. He is currently working on a history of international relief in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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