International Organization and Industrial Change

This is a wide-ranging historical account of world organization and industrial change, providing the background to current debates about reform of the U. N. system. List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. The Promise of Liberal Internationalism.

2. Building the Public International Unions.

3. The Unions' Work and How it was Done.

4. The Second Industrial Revolution and the Great War.

5. Liberal Learning and the Free World Order.

6. The Work of League and the U. N. System.

7. Prosperity and Disappointment.

8. Toward the Next World Order.

Appendix: Data on the Civil Activities of Global Igos.

Illustrations.

Notes.

References.

'International Organization and Industrial Change is a challenging and original work.' Robert O. Keohane, Harvard University

'This book will be an asset to students and teachers concerned with multilateralism and world order.' Robert W. Cox, York University, Canada

'A very interesting and eminently documented work.' Kyklos

Craig Murphy is the co-editor of The New International Political Economy (Macmillan, 1991) and author of The Emergence of the New Ideology (Westviw, 1984). More and more is being demanded of the UN system at a time when economic entrenchment throughout the industrialized world has made the system less and less able to respond. Yet, as this book suggests, the solutions to both the crisis of the world economy and that of the UN system may be linked. Twice in the past - in the generation before the First World War and the generation after the Second - unprecedented innovation within industrial economies has gone hand in hand with effective world organizations central to the governance of a growing international industrial economy. This book explores the role those world organizations play, how they have been created, why successive world orders have broken down, and how they can be reconstructed.

International Organization and Industrial Change is the first comprehensive history of the world organizations and industrial change for more than a generation; it provides essential historical background to current debates about reform of the UN system and of regional economic institutions throughout the industrial world; and it combines information usually only found in separate works on international relations, business history, and development studies.

The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of international organization, international political economy, and industrial change. In addition, it will make invaluable reading for officials working within and with international organizations.