Awards

• Runner-up for W. Wesley Pue Book Prize (Canada).
• Runner-up for W. Wesley Pue Book Prize 2020 (Canada)
• Winner of Canadian Council on International Law Book Award 2020 (United States)

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Everyday Transgressions captures the legal, social and procedural contexts for the history-making establishment of transnational legal standards for workers employed in private households. Adelle Blackett's deep expertise gave her a key role and front-row seat in the expansion of labor rights she skillfully documents in this timely and authoritative book. -- Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance, USA Everyday Transgressions is an unparalleled reflection on the human toll of domestic work-its sacrifices, its gifts, its secrets kept, and its often taken-for-granted infringements upon both basic contract law as well as global human rights. Adelle Blackett listens closely to those who must negotiate between the strictures of false intimacy so frequently licensed when one's workplace is a home. This beautiful volume is local and universal, generous and unsparing, gently compelling yet tremendously urgent. -- Patricia Williams, Columbia University, author of the monthly column Diary of a Mad Law Professor for The Nation Magazine. Adelle Blackett weaves an inspiring account of the International Domestic Workers Federation and their struggle to transform domestic service and fight for social justice. This is a must read for students of international labor movements, activists organizing precarious workers, and readers committed to social justice. -- Mary Romero, author of the award-winning<I> The Maid's Daughter</I> Everyday Transgressions is a timely tribute, during the ILO's centenary, to domestic workers whose contribution to the global economy has grossly been undervalued. This book argues for equality-based inclusion of domestic work in international standard setting and implementation, and ultimately in labor law itself. Adelle Blackett has sent a powerful message. -- Evance Kalula, ILO Committee on Freedom of Association Everyday Transgressions is sophisticated and multi-faceted. The topic is profoundly felt as well as carefully argued. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, and coauthor of award-winning <I>Caring for America</I>

Adelle Blackett weaves an inspiring account of the International Domestic Workers Federation and their struggle to transform domestic service and fight for social justice. This is a must read for students of international labor movements, activists organizing precarious workers, and readers committed to social justice. -- Mary Romero, author of the award-winning<I> The Maid's Daughter</I> Everyday Transgressions is a timely tribute, during the ILO's centenary, to domestic workers whose contribution to the global economy has grossly been undervalued. This book argues for equality-based inclusion of domestic work in international standard setting and implementation, and ultimately in labor law itself. Adelle Blackett has sent a powerful message. -- Evance Kalula, ILO Committee on Freedom of Association Everyday Transgressions is sophisticated and multi-faceted. The topic is profoundly felt as well as carefully argued. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, and coauthor of award-winning <I>Caring for America</I>

Everyday Transgressions is sophisticated and multi-faceted. The topic is personal and familial, profoundly felt as well as carefully argued. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, and coauthor of award-winning <I>Caring for America</I>

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Adelle Blackett is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at McGill University.

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