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Research and Publications

What we research

Our research reflects upon and shapes the direction of the emerging andÌýcontested field of Transnational Labour Law.Ìý Over the years, our research hasÌýintroducedÌýkey considerations into current debates on the direction of transnational labour law as a field and offered critical engagement with the following themes:Ìý

  1. The relationship between labour law and development, both in the global South and in the global North
  2. Hegemonic transplantation of labour regulatory frameworks in labour law, from the global North to the global South
  3. The transnational regulation of decent work for domestic workers, including the intersection of multiple grounds of discrimination (race, gender, nationality) and regulatory innovation in the global South
  4. Social regionalism as counter-hegemonic, multilevel governance of the relationship of the social in the economic, andÌýengaging international solidarity
  5. Labour market informality in its relationship to legal pluralism, and regulatory transformation
  6. Labour migration, the ‘South ofÌýthe North’, and the decent work complement to reasonable labour market access
  7. Emancipation in the idea of labour law, including labour law as development.

In addition to the research undertaken by the Labour Law and Development Research Network (LLDRN),Ìýthe LLDRL also supportsÌýgraduate and postdoctoral fellowsÌýinterested in completing research on the themes listed above.ÌýMany of our fellows visit the LLDRL through the O'Brien Fellowship program of the ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Graduate fellows have benefitted from other sources of postdoctoral support, including under the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development (2016-2017), a SSCHR Banting Fellowship (2011-2013), as well as CRIMT-LLDRL Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010).

What we publish

Working papers series

The LLDRL periodically publishes commissioned working papers on labour law and development, focusing in particular on historical analyses and discussions of pluralist sources of labour law.Ìý

Dzodzi Tsikata
Promoting Change in Domestic Work Conditions from Outside the State in a Context of Regulatory Inertia: The Case of Ghana
LLDRL Working Paper Series #9, July 2018

Louise Boivin
Chèque service, normes du travail et liberté d'association: Le cas du Québec
LLDRL Working Paper Series #8, July 2017

Adelle Blackett and Thierry Galani Tiemeni
Regulatory Innovation in The Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and ArbitrationÌý
LLDRL Working Paper Series #7, September 2016 (2nd edition: December 2016).

Adelle Blackett with the collaboration of Assata Koné-Silué
Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Côte d'Ivoire: Labour Administration and the Judiciary under a Generalist LabourÌýCodeÌý
LLDRL Working Paper Series #6, March 2016.

Lorena Poblete
New Rights, Old Social Protection: The New Regulation for Domestic Workers in ArgentinaÌý
LLDRL Working Paper Series #5, May 2015.

Assata Koné-Silué
La négociation collective comme source de normativité en droit du travail ivoirienÌý
LLDRL Working Paper Series #4, 2014.

Moreira Gomes, Ana Virgínia and Martins Bertolin, Patrícia Tuma
Regulatory Challenges of Domestic Work: The Case of BrazilÌý
LLDRL Working Paper #3, 2010.

Jean-Marie Tchakoua
Les tendances de la négociation collective de l'ère nouvelle au CamerounÌý
LLDRL Working Paper #2, 2010.

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David Austin
Pan-Africanism, Caribbean Exile, and Post-Colonial AfricaÌý
LLDRL Working Paper #1, 2010.

Special publications on topics related to the LLDRLÌý

Transnational labour law

"Decolonizing Labour Law: Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law," Vol. 33:2,ÌýRevueÌýCanadienne Droit et Société / Canadian Journal of Law and SocietyÌý(2018), with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor), as well as a range of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows from ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University affiliated with the LLDRL and speakers who presented their work through the LLDRL, including Sabaa Khan (alumni of the LLDRL), Zobaida Khan (alumni),ÌýArmel Brice Adanhounme (member of the LLDRL) etÌýMartin Gallié (member of the LLDRL).Ìý

"" (2015)Ìýedited by Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock (Edward Elgar Publishing).Ìý

"," (2011) edited by Adelle Blackett and Christian Lévesque (Routledge).

Labour law and development

"," Vol. 32:2,ÌýComparative Labor Law and Policy JournalÌý(2011), with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor), Dzodzi Tsikata, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Diamond Ashiagbor et Chantal Thomas (all members and alumni of theÌýLLDRL).Ìý

Adelle Blackett, ","Ìý(2007) International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper No. 179.

Regulation of decent work for domestic workers

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"," Vol 34:2,ÌýInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations,Ìý(2018), a special sectionÌýon decent work for domestic workers, with contributions from Adelle Blackett (co-guest editor), Anne Trebilcock (co-guest editor), Lorena Poblete and Thierry Galani Tiemeni (all members of the LLDRL).Ìý

Elsa Galerand, Martin Gallié (member of the LLDRL) andÌýJeanne Olivier Gobeil, "Domestic Labour and Exploitation: The Case of Live-In Caregiver in Canada (LCP)," (Janvier 2015), in collaboration with PINAY and theÌýService aux collectivités de l’UQAM.

This report is also available in french.

"," Vol 23:1,ÌýRevueÌýFemmes et DroitÌý/ Canadian Journal of Women and the LawÌý(2011), a special number on domestic workers, with contributions from Adelle Blackett (guest editor) andÌýDzodzi Tsikata (member of theÌýLLDRL).

Dzodzi Tsikata,Ìý"," (2009)ÌýILO Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 23.Ìý

Adelle Blackett, "," (1998)ÌýILO, Labour Law and Labour Relations Programme.Ìý

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