Transnational labour law

Adelle Blackett

Chapter 36 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 423-434 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Transnational labour law; Emancipation; Double movement; Slavery and the law; Intersectionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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