Everyday Transgressions (eBook)

Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law

Adelle Blackett (Autor)

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2019
306 Seiten
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1576-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social stratification and immigration.â• Choice

Adelle Blackett tells the story behind the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 which in 2011 created the first comprehensive international standards to extend fundamental protections and rights to the millions of domestic workers laboring in other peoples' homes throughout the world. As the principal legal architect, Blackett is able to take us behind the scenes to show us how Convention No. 189 transgresses the everyday law of the household workplace to embrace domestic workers' human rights claim to be both workers like any other, and workers like no other.

In doing so, she discusses the importance of understanding historical forms of invisibility, recognizes the influence of the domestic workers themselves, and weaves in poignant experiences, infusing the discussion of laws and standards with intimate examples and sophisticated analyses. Looking to the future, she ponders how international institutions such as the ILO will address labor market informality alongside national and regional law reform. 

Regardless of what comes next, Everyday Transgressions establishes that domestic workers' victory is a victory for the ILO and for all those who struggle for an inclusive, transnational vision of labor law, rooted in social justice.

Autor

Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at McGill University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Cares?
1. Establishing a Transgressive Transnational Legal Order
2. What's Informality Got to Do with It? On Invisibility
3. Subordination or Servitude in the Law of the Household Workplace: Decent Work for Domestic Workers
4. Searching for Law in Historical Cookbooks
5. Tough Spots at the International Labour Conference
6. Beyond Ratification: Diffusing Decent Work for Domestic Workers
Conclusion: Thinking Transnationally
Postface
Appendixes
1. A Note on Terminology
2. Text of the Domestic Workers Convention and Domestic Workers Recommendation
3. International Standard-Setting Timeline
4. The Foregrounded Ethnographies
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Activists • Decent Work for Domestic Workers • Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189 • domestic worker labor law • domestic worker rights • domestic workers • domestic workers' • domestic workers' human rights • domestic workers, ILO, labor law, decent work, household workplace • domestic workers,ILO,labor law,decent work,household workplace • domestic workers' legal rights • domestic workers protection • Domestic workers' rights • Employment law • household employees • Household employees legal status • influence of the domestic workers • International Labour Organization • International Labour Organization convention • International Labour Organization history • labor activists • Labor & Employment • Labor & Industrial Relations • labor and politics • Labor Law • labor law historians • Labor laws and legislation • labor policy historians • labor relations • labor studies • legal historian • Legal History • Legal Studies • National Domestic Workers Alliance • policy historians • Social Justice • Social Stratification • Studies in Working-Class History • transnational legal standards
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1576-3 / 1501715763
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1576-1 / 9781501715761