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An International Labor Office and Palgrave MacMillan publication "A breakthrough 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."-Corinna R. Unger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1939. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a humanitarian sector within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the histo...

New polities emerged during the processes of decolonization. The break with the colonial past was not only political, but also more general. While conventional wisdom defines education as a field of action reproducing society in time, decolo-nization placed broader and more radical demands on the field: to produce a new society. For this purpose, new forms of education and schooling were required, although the importance of inherited instituti...

Das Buch ist die erste umfassende Geschichte des American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), der zentralen Hilfsorganisation der amerikanischen Quäker während der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Hilfe eines transnationalen Ansatzes wirft die Studie Licht auf eine bedeutende und bislang wenig beachtete Episode in der Geschichte internationaler humanitärer Hilfe. Durch die Perspektive der amerikanischer Hilfe werden dabei Spannungen deutl...

This is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization¿s (100 year-long) history. The Centenary publication shows the ILO as a forum and an actor in the area of Global Social Policy. It opens a perspective on the manifold ways the ILO over a hundred years sought to structure debates on social policy across national borders and render practical contributions for the world of work and the area of social policy at large.

Despite the growing importance of funds through corporate bonds, most investigations on the short-term effects of certain events on firm value are only conducted for stocks. Thus, research provides an incomplete view on how firm value is truly affected. The author fills this gap and focuses his research on corporate debt. The first section of the book provides a comprehensive overview of existing methodologies to calculate abnormal bond return...