Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Non-Life Insurance
- Part II Life, Health and Social Insurance
- 5 Policyholders in the Early Business of Japanese Life Assurance: A Demand-Side Study
- 6 Industrial Life Insurance and the Cost of Dying: The Role of Endowment and Whole Life Insurance in Anglo-Saxon and European Countries during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
- 7 From Economic to Political Reality: Forming a Nationalized Indian Life Insurance Market
- 8 Life Offices to the Rescue! A History of the Role of Life Assurance in the South African Economy during the Twentieth Century
- 9 Competing Globalizations: Controversies between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900–60
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
9 - Competing Globalizations: Controversies between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900–60
from Part II - Life, Health and Social Insurance
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Non-Life Insurance
- Part II Life, Health and Social Insurance
- 5 Policyholders in the Early Business of Japanese Life Assurance: A Demand-Side Study
- 6 Industrial Life Insurance and the Cost of Dying: The Role of Endowment and Whole Life Insurance in Anglo-Saxon and European Countries during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
- 7 From Economic to Political Reality: Forming a Nationalized Indian Life Insurance Market
- 8 Life Offices to the Rescue! A History of the Role of Life Assurance in the South African Economy during the Twentieth Century
- 9 Competing Globalizations: Controversies between Private and Social Insurance at International Organizations, 1900–60
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the role of international organizations in influencing and shaping the development of national welfare systems. In this process, scientific expertise played a crucial role, both on the level of international organizations and for the interactions between international and national institutions. In this sense, the chapter builds a bridge between the emerging fields of transnational history and the history of knowledge. The significance of experts in international organizations is based upon an epistemic analogy, if not a relatedness, between the processes of scientification and globalization. Both are manifestations of the broad and heterogeneous tradition of a secular universalism that was particularly prominent and influential in the long nineteenth century. Universalist traditions materialized in a variety of organizations including the world exhibitions and their philanthropic sponsors, as well as the international academic congresses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the twentieth century, these organizations were amended by new international and supranational organizations, including the International Labour Office (ILO), the ILO-affiliated International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which also tried to shape the development of national welfare states in Europe and on a global level. Most of these organizations relied heavily on universalist expert knowledge to define the recommended social policy models; and most models were built after particular European welfare states – from the German and Scandinavian models in the first part of the century to the Anglo-Saxon and Swiss models since the 1970s.
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- The Development of International Insurance , pp. 167 - 186Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014