Domestic Workers

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

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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

Organizando a Indústria da Paciência: Perfil de uma Trabalhadora Doméstica em Maputo, Moçambique

Work Like Any Other, Work Like No Other: Establishing Decent Work for Domestic Workers

In anticipation of the implementation of the ILO Convention on the Rights of Domestic Workers, analyzes the unique challenges of creating...

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...

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

Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers in Morocco

The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in IndiaCanadian Journal of Women and the Law

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The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers

This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the...