What we do
The聽Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory聽(LLDRL), housed at 成人VR视频鈥檚 Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada, brings together international and interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners and students seeking聽to further reflections on the interactions between聽labour law and development and to contribute to the emergence of a transnational labour law which recentres the Global South - and the "South聽in the North - and the workers and types of work typically excluded from past and current debates in labour law and development
翱耻谤听, , and聽聽examine聽the marginalization聽of informal, rural, domestic, migrant and agricultural聽workers from traditional labour regulations, as well as the impact of such exclusions on development policies put forward at聽the national and international levels.聽
Though our '聽research interests are diverse, our work is deliberately focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora in countries of the North, and draws from feminist, post-colonial and critical race聽theories. Several reasons explain these choices: First, this region and these workers remain marginalized in discussions on globalization and labour law. Second, colonial history, the weight of informal labour in the region, and the fact that it聽remains one of the main targets of international development policies further聽justify interest in this area. Finally, the importance of the African diaspora in the economies of countries of the North and South, the development of temporary immigration programs in sectors, such as domestic and agricultural labour,聽and the increasing number of undocumented workers explain interest in this social category.
In addition to disseminating our research in our , guest-edited special issues, as well as via the ,聽seminars, public conferences聽and聽, our members from the North and South share their research materials via聽the Labour Law and Development Research Database聽. By providing聽an聽unparalleled access to rare, poorly preserved, primary and secondary resources on labour law and development to our members from around the world, the database聽contributes to our goal of strengthening the collaboration between聽researchers of the North and of the South.聽Collecting information on these issues and making it accessible to researchers from the North and South.聽
The LLDRL's mission includes :
- Developing research on the links between labour law, on the one hand, and economic and social development theories and programs, on the other;
- Improving knowledge of the regulation of informal, rural, and domestic labour;
- Studying the working conditions of the African diaspora in western societies;
- Collecting information on these issues and making it accessible to researchers from the North and South;
- Strengthening links between researchers and professors from the North and South;
- Disseminating research results by publishing articles and other works and by holding public conferences, courses, seminars and workshops on the issues identified by the network.
