Everyday Transgressions

Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law

Adelle Blackett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2019
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1575-4 (ISBN)

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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...

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.― 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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	2 Charts; 3 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-5017-1575-5 / 1501715755
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-1575-4 / 9781501715754
Zustand	Neuware