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Book SynopsisThe 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.
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Trade Review
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 *
An important book for legal and policy historians concerned with labor, Blackett's volume encourages her readers to think about why standards for decent work must be transnational, responsive to workers' experiences, and inspired by a desire to see substantive justice rather than formal law implemented.
* Labor: Studies in Working-Class History *
Everyday Transgressions is a magnificent piece of research. The book sparks numerous questions and provides innovative heuristic tools for answering them. For specialists in this field (legal scholars and social scientists) but also for domestic workers and activists, it can be read as an invitation to explore the international and local dynamics in which state law confronts and defeats (albeit partially and momentarily) the persistent law of the household workplace.
* Revue International des études du Dévelopmenet *
Everyday Transgressions is a magnificent piece of research. The book sparks numerous questions and provides innovative heuristic tools for answering them. For specialists in this field (legal scholars and social scientists) but also for domestic workers and activists, it can be read as an invitation to explore the international and local dynamics in which state law confronts and defeats (albeit partially and momentarily) the persistent law of the household workplace.
* ILR Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
