Papers by Adelle Blackett
Research Handbook on Third World Approaches edited by Anghie, A.T. Chimni, B.S. Fakhri, M. Nesiah, V. Mickelson, K.to International Law, 2025
This chapter argues for a double movement that would TWAIL labour law and labour TWAIL. This is n... more This chapter argues for a double movement that would TWAIL labour law and labour TWAIL. This is necessarily boundary-crossing work. Transnational labour law moves us beyond an industrial revolution centred understanding of its core idea, toward one that is longer, deeper and wider. Its length calls for engaging with persisting histories of slavery and colonisation. Its depth implies challenging the boundary between reproductive and productive labour. And its breadth entails thinking about labour law across borders, as much methodologically as geographically to engage the 'Third World'. In other words, transnational labour law TWAILs labour law. This chapter operates a double movement because it poses a challenge to TWAIL scholars to move beyond the prescient critique of the dominant strands of international law as we have inherited them, to engage with those margins of international law through which workers-of the Global South and the South of the North-have claimed spaces, as legal actors.
Race, Racism and International Law, 2025
Dalhousie Law Journal, 2025
I am also grateful to Rébecca Brassard, JD, BCL candidate, McGill University, for excellent resea... more I am also grateful to Rébecca Brassard, JD, BCL candidate, McGill University, for excellent research assistance as I finalized this lecture for publication. Finally, I wish to thank my students in labour law and employment law law over the past two decades, who in the co-constitutive process of teaching and learning, have enthusiastically engaged with my progressive integration of these themes in my teaching, and invariably helped me to sharpen my analysis. Any errors or omissions in this article are my own.
Revue Internationale Du Travail, Dec 1, 2020
Social Science Research Network, Jul 1, 2007
L a globalización complica la regulación del trabajo tanto en los países del Sur como en los del ... more L a globalización complica la regulación del trabajo tanto en los países del Sur como en los del Norte, lo cual reconfigura las fronteras y los niveles de regulación. Ciertamente, la re-regulación del trabajo afecta a los países del Sur de una manera diferente que a los países del Norte. Esta asimetría pareciera estar reflejada, literal y paradójicamente, en la fijación de re-regular que de manera abrumadora se tiene en el Norte, en detrimento de lograr una comprensión más profunda de las tendencias reguladoras en el Sur. La medida en la cual las nociones del 'Norte' y del 'Sur' son en sí mismas nociones Resumen. El presente artículo sostiene que el regionalismo social tiene el potencial de cuestionar las visiones asimétricas y unidimensionales de la globalización, al proveer de alternativas creíbles y fluidas que utilizan como punto de partida al conjunto de Estados descentralizados, e incluso micro-Estados, incluyendo sus miembros integrantes, como los actores de la sociedad civil. Les ofrece el potencial de buscar más allá de las dimensiones sociales del comercio para pensar las conexiones inherentes entre lo social y lo económico, y de esta manera el regionalismo social. El artículo consiste entonces en redireccionar la atención a un ejemplo limitado de regionalismo social que se está construyendo: CARICOM. * No obstante que el tema de este volumen es sobre Formación profesional y empleo para jóvenes, por su importancia el presente trabajo se publica en el quinto número.
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Feb 24, 2017
Social Science Research Network, 2019
The transnational futures of international labour law (TFILL) is the title given to the 12-week, ... more The transnational futures of international labour law (TFILL) is the title given to the 12-week, bilingual course taught at McGill University in winter 2019,3 the place where the ILO took wartime refuge from 1940 to 1948. In its 1919 constitution, ILO members arm that ‘universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice’. In the 1944 constitutional annex, the Declaration of Philadelphia, the ILO goes further to espouse a vision that might be considered transnational – the war against want is to be waged not only within each nation, but by ‘continuous and concerted international effort in which the representatives of workers and employers, enjoying equal status with those of governments, join with them in free discussion and democratic decision with a view to the promotion of the common welfare, of all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, who have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity’. The TFILL seeks to speak to the laid off General Motors autoworker in Oshawa whose father was an autoworker, and whose grandfather was an autoworker, and who, faced with a decent lifestyle that is falling apart, proclaims: ‘the market plays with peoples’ lives’. The TFILL seeks at the same time to speak to the destitute worker in Mexico who hopes the job will be his and who migrates internally, with 100 more people all in search of that one job that will not be at conditions anything like the conditions of that GM worker in Oshawa.
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Jul 1, 2006
Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transborder labour... more Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transborder labour law, 3 as commentators attempt to come to terms with the shifting labour law paradigm in the new economy. Most of the work has filled law review pages. Fortunately, Sir Bob Hepple has led the way in Labour Laws and Global Trade by producing a well-written and engaging book. The format weaves together the existing scholarship in a manner that provides a comprehensive, challenging, and satisfying assessment of established ideas, and produces a forward-looking account of regulatory directions. Hepple's vigorous defence of an institutional vision of state labour regulatory action offers a singular contribution to the field. ' [Labour Laws and Global Trade].
Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2002
902 COMP. LABOR LAW & POL'Y JOURNAL [Vol. 23:901 The focus on NAFTA turns attent... more 902 COMP. LABOR LAW & POL'Y JOURNAL [Vol. 23:901 The focus on NAFTA turns attention away from the potentially fruitful task of looking carefully at other approaches to social policy that may already exist within different regional arrangements in the hemisphere. Indeed, ...
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Aug 1, 2018
Hart Publishing eBooks, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Mar 3, 2021
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2021
International Journal of The Legal Profession, Nov 1, 2001
The central concern of this paper is to understand the potential that informal institutions, like... more The central concern of this paper is to understand the potential that informal institutions, like mentorship, hold to promote diversity in the legal profession, including academe. The paper starts from the premise that it is necessary to look at the ways in which informal institutions may simultaneously be sites that reproduce exclusionary practices and affirming spaces to promote inclusion. The paper will first critique some of the contemporary literature that focuses on the importance of role models to the project of diversifying law schools, and in the process explain why it is distinct from mentoring. It will pause to explore the assumptions about representation and access contained within this literature. The paper will then look at the characteristics of mentoring, and render explicit some of its prerequisites. The dearth of scholarship on this topic, contrasted with the implicit understanding that most successful academics have of the importance of solid mentoring relationships, will be drawn upon as a starting point to explore the informal aspects of this relationship. Feminist scholarship on another informal institution, the family, that challenges the border between the public and the private, will be called upon to work through the relational dimensions of mentoring. The third section of the paper will draw upon the scholarship on cultural pluralism and critical race theory, which seeks to look more directly at the link between identity and access to justice. It will assess to what extent mentoring can sustain difference, and whether it can consciously be drawn upon to promote it. Finally, the paper will consider whether those who see mentoring as a method to promote access to justice should embrace traditional, informal mechanisms, or whether they should prefer formal mentorship programmes.
Revue québécoise de droit international, 2007
This article engages the contemporary transformation of international labour normativity by refoc... more This article engages the contemporary transformation of international labour normativity by refocusing debates between civil/political rights and economic/social rights on a contextualized discussion on social inequalities. It traces the persistent labour market inequality experienced by one historically marginalized group, the black community in Canada, though the lens of a particularly problematic recent human rights decision. It first contends that efforts to reconceptualize labour law as fundamentally procedural in nature run the risk of undermining attempts to protect the economic and social rights of those most in need of labour law. It adds that neither are economic and social rights a panacea. Instead it suggests that notions of equality and decent work must play a guiding role in rethinking the indivisibility of rights, to ensure that labour law (national and transnational) fulfil both its protection and worker empowerment mandates. Cet article traite de la transformation contemporaine de la normativité du droit international du travail en recentrant le débat entre les droits civils et politiques, d'une part, et les droits économiques et sociaux, d'autre part, par une discussion sur les inégalités sociales. Il retrace l'inégalité persistante du marché du travail à l'égard d'un groupe historiquement marginalisé, la communauté noire du Canada, et l'analyse à l'aune d'une décision récente et particulièrement problématique en matière de droits de la personne. Cet article défend l'idée suivant laquelle les efforts de reconceptualisation du droit du travail comme un droit de nature fondamentalement procédurale s'accompagnent du risque de saper les tentatives visant à protéger les droits économiques et sociaux des travailleurs qui en ont le plus besoin. Il suggère plutôt d'employer les concepts phares d'égalité et de travail décent dans la réflexion sur l'indivisibilité des droits, afin d'assurer que le droit du travail (national et transnational) puisse remplir ses mandats de protection et d'outillage des travailleurs.
American Journal of International Law, Oct 1, 2012
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2. Il y a une grande part d’interdépendance, sur les plans historiques et contemporains. Les destins sont liés. Il sera important de commencer à penser le dialogue social sur un plan transnational, au sein d’institutions. Le dialogue social devra nous permettre de nous reconnaitre les uns dans les autres. Il faut donc confronter la diversité socioéconomique.
3. L’OIT a plus que jamais un rôle significatif à jouer. Il ne s’agit pas simplement de rappeler les normes internationales du travail, mais surtout de fournir des espaces de réflexion critique sur l’avenir et le devenir d’un dialogue social capable de favoriser la justice sociale dans l’ère mondial.
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