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Citation: WIEGO. 2008. Informal Workers in Focus: Domestic Workers.
This fact sheet offers information on the forces that cause women to become domestic workers, how many there are globally, their wages and the particular problems they face.
It also explores issues relating to migrant workers and child labour in domestic work, and the demands domestic workers have agreed to focus their campaigns around
Read an update on domestic workers' organizing efforts: The Campaign for a Domestic Workers' Convention.
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