Everyday Transgressions : Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law / Adelle Blackett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackett, Adelle, 1967- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.

Foreign workers.

Labor laws and legislation, International.

Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc.

Household employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Glossary of Terms

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781501736315

1501736310

9781501715778

1501715771

OCLC:

1054267220