Domestic Workers

Domestic Work, Conditions of Work and Employment: A Legal Perspective

From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labour Force

Out of the Shadows: Organising and protecting domestic workers in Europe: The role of trade unions

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Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

Measuring the Economic and Social Value of Domestic Work

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers. The author is Specialist...

The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?

From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

Neoliberal austerity and the marketisation of elderly careSocial and Cultural Geography

Taking the recent debate on austerity as a starting point, this paper discusses contradictions in current processes of neoliberalisation...

Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

Paid Care Providers in South Africa: Nurses, Domestic Workers, and Home-Based Care Workers