ILO Histories

Biographical notes

Jasmien Van Daele (Volume editor) Magaly Rodriguez Garcia (Volume editor) Geert van Goethem (Volume editor)

Jasmien Van Daele (1977) is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of Ghent University, Belgium. She holds a PhD on the early history of the ILO within the broader research framework of transnational welfare state development. Her publications include «Engineering Social Peace: Networks, Ideas, and the Founding of the ILO» (International Review of Social History, 2005); «The ILO in Past and Present Research» (International Review of Social History, 2008); and The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2009 (2009). Magaly Rodríguez García (1973) works as Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in a project dealing with prostitutes and their views on labour. She has published on internationalist views of Marxist socialists and liberals, and the international free trade union movement in Europe and Latin America. Geert Van Goethem (1957) is Director of Amsab-Institute of Social History in Ghent, Belgium. He has written about the history of the Belgian labour and trade union movement and about international trade unionism. His recent publications include The Amsterdam International. The World of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945 (2006). Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History, and Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His recent publications include Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (2008) and Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (2009).