Domestic Workers

DOMESTIC WORKERS: Frontline Care Workers at Risk

Because their work requires them to be in others’ home—often multiple homes—and to come in close contact with individuals and items that...

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

Domestic Workers: Organizing the Patience Industry

Camarada Albertina Mundlovo is a domestic worker in Maputo, Mozambique. An Indian Ocean port city, Maputo is Mozambique’s largest economic...

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

Lautloses Heer der Domestic WorkersMitbestimmung

This article (in German) is from the journal of the Hans Boeckler Foundation “Mitbestimmung” (co-determination).

Help Wanted: Abuses Against Female Domestic Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia

Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

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Researching Barriers to Access to Justice for Migrant Domestic Workers in Diplomatic Households

Domestic workers, informal construction workers, and the state…and almost everything else

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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