Domestic Workers

Home Truths: Wellbeing and Vulnerabilities of Child Domestic Workers

The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011

Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.  Resource is subscription only.

Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned...

Formalizing Domestic Work

Many countries around the world are at the onset of a care crisis: with the ageing of the population, and continually increasing rates of...

Hierarchies of Care Work in South Africa: Nurses, Social Workers and Home-based Care Workers

Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador

Guide syndical CSI – Un travail décent, une vie décente pour les travailleurs et les travailleuses domestiques

Domestic Workers in Latin America: Statistics for New Policies

This paper analyzes domestic work, where the labour relationship is ill-regulated and difficult to control, and the conditions and characteristics...

Statistics on Domestic Workers in Latin America

Domestic work is an important occupation, involving a significant proportion of the workforce in Latin America.  

The Rights of Domestic Workers: Chances and Challenges for International and National Advocacy Work and Networking

Ecumenical Center, Geneva, Switzerland On the occasion of the 99th Session of the International Labor Conference