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Introduction: Decolonizing Labour Law — Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law/Vers un droit du travail décolonisé — Contributions au droit transnational du travail en émergence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

Adelle Blackett*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law & Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and DevelopmentFaculty of Law, McGill Universityadelle.blackett@mcgill.ca

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Footnotes

*

I gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of Emily Ann Painter, B.C.L. and LL.B. candidate at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, who translated sections of this introduction into French.

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