Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T05:56:54.606Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Introduction: Decolonizing Labour Law — Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law/Vers un droit du travail décolonisé — Contributions au droit transnational du travail en émergence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

Adelle Blackett
Adelle Blackett*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law & Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and DevelopmentFaculty of Law, McGill Universityadelle.blackett@mcgill.ca
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Introduction
Information
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 33 , Issue 2: Vers un droit du travail décolonisé : Contributions au droit transnational du travail en émergence / Decolonizing Labour Law: Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law , August 2018 , pp. 111 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association / Association Canadienne Droit et Société 2018 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

I gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of Emily Ann Painter, B.C.L. and LL.B. candidate at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, who translated sections of this introduction into French.

References

1 Tuck, Eve and Wayne Yang, K., “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” (2012) Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1: 1–40;Google Scholar Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 1963/2004).Google Scholar

2 du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903);Google Scholar Robinson, Cedric, Black Marxism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000);Google Scholar Hall, Stuart, The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (Harvard University Press, 2017);CrossRefGoogle Scholar Coulthard, Glen, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Butler, Judith, “Trump is Emancipating Unbridled Hate,” Zeit Online, 28 October 2016.Google Scholar

4 Georges Abi-Saab, “The Newly Independent States and the Rules of International Law: An Outline” (1962) 8 Howard L.J. 95 at 115

5 Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton 438 (2015).

6 Nancy Fraser, “A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi” (May-June 2013) 81 New Left Review 119 at 124; Nancy Fraser, “From Exploitation to Expropriation: Historic Geographies of Racialized Capitalism” (2018) 94:1 Economic Geography 1.

7 Mamdani, Mahmood,Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press, 1996).Google Scholar

8 Tuck and Yang, 6–7; Chanook, Martin, Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902–1936: Fear, Favour, and Prejudice (Cambridge University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

9 Blackett, Adelle, “Decolonizing Labour Law: A Few Comments” Bulletin for Comparative Labour Relations 92 (2016): 89–99.Google Scholar

10 Khan, Sabaa Ahmad, “Struggles and Actions for Legal Space in the Urban World: The Case of Informal Economy E-Waste Workers,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 115–135.Google Scholar

11 Seck, Sara, “Labour and Environment in Business and Human Rights: Beyond the Bounded Autonomous Worker,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 137–57.Google Scholar

12 Martin, Isabelle, “The Use of Transnational Labour Law in Steering Socially Responsible Corporate Governance toward Increased Workers Protection,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 159–76.Google Scholar

13 Khan, Zobaida, “Transnational Labour Governance: A Critical Review of Proposals for Linkage through the Lens of the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 177–97.Google Scholar

14 Adanhounme, Armel Brice, « La citoyenneté corporative entre libéralisme et démocratie: les individus ou leur communauté? », Revue canadienne de droit et société 33, no. 2 (2018): 199–221.Google Scholar

15 Gallerand, Elsa & Gallié, Martin, « Travail non libre et rapports sociaux de sexe. À propos des programmes d’immigration temporaires », Revue canadienne de droit et société 33, no. 2 (2018): 223–41.Google Scholar

16 Hastie, Bethanie, “The Inequality of Low-Wage Migrant Labour: Reflections on PN v FR and OPT v Presteve,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 243–59.Google Scholar

17 Smith, Adrian, “Temporary Labour Migration and the ‘Ceremony of Innocence’ of Postwar Labour Law: Confronting ‘the South of the North,’” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 261–77.Google Scholar

18 Adelle Blackett, Global Justice in Transnational Labour Law: A Review of Global Justice and International Labour Rights, ed. Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner, and Faina Miman-Sivan (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33, no. 2 (2018): 279–87.

19 Simpson, Audra, Mohawk Interruptus (Duke University Press, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

20 It is important to acknowledge those who have worked to ensure space for alternative narratives to emerge. See generally Archer, Simon, Drache, Daniel, and Zumbansen, Peer ed., The Daunting Enterprise of the Law: Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

21 Harding, Vincent, “The Vocation of the Black Scholar and the Struggles of the Black Community,” in Education and Black Struggle: Notes from the Colonized World, Institute of the Black World (Harvard Educational Review, 1974), 25.Google Scholar