On July 27, 2016, Professor Blackett presented her lecture "What's Informality got to do with it? Domestic Work, the Employment Relationship and Social Justice" at SOAS University of London.
Based on a chapter of Professor Blackett's upcoming book Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to Labour Law, this lecture engaged with recent international standard setting seeking the transitioning of the "informal" into the "formal" economy and questioned the reification of the binary. Professor Blackett particularly explored the paradox of treating domestic workers as a classic example of “informal employment,” both from historical and contemporary perspectives. She further argued for closer engagement with the strong pluralist normativity that surrounds the “home workplace” as an example of how to begin to reimagine a labour law that takes representation, recognition and redistribution seriously.
In honour of the lecture's anniversary, an audio recording has now been made available.
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