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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Blackett, Adelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

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.

Table of 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