Everyday Transgressions

Adelle Blackett

Description

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. ChoiceAdelle 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.

Sujets

• Droit et juridique
• Sociology
• Industrial relations
• Legal history
• Public international law

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501715778
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

EVERYDAY TRANSGRESSïONS

EVERYDAY TRANSGRESSïONS

DOMEST I C WORKE RS’ T RANSNAT I ONAL CHAL L E NGE TO I NT E RNAT I ONAL L ABOR L AW

A d e l l e B l a c k e t t

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Names: Backett, Adee, 1967–author.  Tîte: Everyday transgressîons : domestîc workers’ transnatîona chaenge to înternatîona abor aw / Adee Backett.  Descrîptîon: ïthaca [New York] : ïLR Press, an împrînt o Corne Unîversîty Press, 2019. | ïncudes bîbîographî- ca reerences and îndex.  ïdentîIers: LCCN 2018044260 (prînt) | LCCN 2018045317 (ebook) | ïSBN 9781501715778 (pd ) | ïSBN 9781501715761 (epub/mobî) |ïSBN 9781501736315 (coth; ak. paper) | ïSBN 9781501715754 (pbk.; ak. paper)  Subjects: LCSH: Househod empoyees—Lega status, aws, etc. | Labor aws and egîsatîon, ïnternatîona. | Foreîgn workers—Lega status, aws, etc.  CassîIcatîon: LCC K1841.H68 (ebook) | LCC K1841. H68 B53 2019 (prînt) | DDC 344.01—dc23  LC record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2018044260

Cover îmage: Rîta Letendre,Fîn du jour, 2003, 36 x 30 în, oî. Courtesy o Gaérîe Sîmon Baîs, Montrea.

For Mom, Wîth respect and ratîtude

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 ïntroductîon: Who Cares?  1. Estabîshîng a Transgressîve Transnatîona Lega Order  2. What’s ïnormaîty Got to Do wîth ït? On ïnvîsîbîîty  3. Subordînatîon or Servîtude în the Law o the Househod Workpace: Decent Work or Domestîc Workers  4. Searchîng or Law în Hîstorîca Cookbooks  5. Tough Spots at the ïnternatîona LabourConerence  6. Beyond RatîIcatîon: Dîfusîng Decent Work or Domestîc Workers  Concusîon: Thînkîng Transnatîonay

Postace Appendîxes 1. A Note on Termînooy 2. Text o the Domestîc Workers Conventîon and Domestîc Workers Recommendatîon

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3. ïnternatîona Standard-Settîn Tîmeîne 4. The Forerounded Ethnoraphîes Gossary o Terms Notes Seected Bîbîoraphy ïndex

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Thîs book îs not the book ï thought ît woud be ten years ago when ï started the standard-settîng process at the ïLO. ï acknow- edge the many coeagues who wecomed and nourîshed my commîtment to thîs topîc rom the start o my aiîatîon wîth the ïLO în 1993—în partîcuar, Anne Trebîcock, Shauna Oney, Zaar Shaheed, Edward Yemîn, and Mary Hamouda. ï thank Manuea Tomeî or îmmedîatey recognîzîng the sîgnîI- cance o the standard-settîng process în 2008, and entrustîng me wîth the dratîng o the ïLO’s Law and Practîce Report (“Report ïV(1)”). ï aso thank Ceo Doumbîa-Henry, who tutored me în the standard-settîng process as soon as ï was appoînted. ït was an honor to work wîth the many înternatîona abor oicîas who contrîbuted în a myrîad o împortant ways to the success o the ïLO standard-settîng process. Throughout the process, ï înteracted wîth rep- resentatîves o a number o other înternatîona organîzatîons and îndependent experts o the Oice o the Unîted Natîons Hîgh Commîssîoner or Human Rîghts, încudîng those aiîated wîth the Women în ïnorma Empoyment: Gobaîzîng and Organîzîng (WïEGO) network and Human Rîghts Watch, who contrîbuted sîgnîIcanty to the overa process. ï thank the Fondatîon du Barreau du Québec, whîch not ony provîded start- up undîng or me to pursue comparatîve aw research on cîtîzenshîp at work or domestîc workers, ocusîng on coectîve bargaînîng and compîance sîm- pîIcatîon mechanîsms such as servîce checks în France, but aso generousy agreed that my own pubîcatîons on thîs topîc woud be deerred so that ï coud contrîbute both tîme and the ruît o that research to the ïLO în support o the standard-settîng process. Gregor Murray, dîrector o the ïnterunîversîty Research Centre on Go- baîzatîon and Work (CRïMT), and hîs coeagues supported the ïnterna- tîona Semînar on Decent Work or Domestîc Workers, unded by the Government o Canada as part o the ïnternatîona and Comparatîve Dîa- ogue Ceebratîng the ïLO at 90 and Preparîng or Standard-Settîng înto the Future,onMarch29,2010.Seectedpaperspresentedattheconerence

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