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The Fourth Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction
Care work and the Global South: Shifting the Frame on Labour Law’s Founding Narratives
When: Monday, 27 January 2025, 1pm–2.30pm (GMT) / 6.30pm–8pm (IST)
Where: Online via MS Teams
Abstract: ILO Convention No. 189 was decisively built around regulatory innovation that emerged primarily from the global South. How much does this starting point shift the narrative on how labour law’s founding narratives are understood? The contention in this paper is that the emancipatory potential of focusing on care work requires researchers to build resolutely on methodological starting points that understand the global South not as a site of ‘diversity’ but as an epistemological starting point, places of deep knowing and of alternative disciplinary conceptualizations that can and increasingly must inform regulatory developments, transnationally.
Speakers:
Professor Adelle Blackett, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Adelle Blackett is a prominent scholar at McGill University specializing in transnational labour law, and with a focus on emancipatory approaches. She authored “Everyday Transgressions,” a notable book on domestic workers and international labour law. Her research, supported by SSHRC, centres on Slavery and the Law. As an ILO expert, she played a vital role in shaping labour rights for domestic workers globally. Her work has earned her numerous awards and honorary doctorates, recognizing her contributions to academia and human rights.
Moderator
Dr. Neha Wadhawan, ILO Delhi, National Program Coordinator of the Work in Freedom Project
Neha Wadhawan has led efforts since 2018 to prevent trafficking of adolescent girls and women into forced labor, focusing on domestic work and garment supply chains in South and West Asia. Through the Work in Freedom program, funded by UKFCDO, she promotes knowledge sharing on labor rights across regions. Neha holds a PhD in international politics from JNU, with research interests in social protection, labor rights, mobility, and gender in South Asia. She has worked with various UN agencies and the governments of India and Nepal on socio-economic development, labor migration, and women’s work, and previously taught at Ambedkar University Delhi.
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