Abstract

The section is devoted to the history of the International Labour Organisation in the interwar years. The interaction between the interpretation outlined by Italian historian Franco De Felice in his seminal 1988 book Sapere e politica and the most recent historical scholarship, including the researches spurred by the ILO centenary in 2019, offers the starting point for papers addressing Albert Thomas and his successors’ diplomacy and networks, the development of social rights for workers and refugees, and the relationship between the ILO and Fascist Italy De Felice’s own intellectual project