Domestic Workers

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...

Domestic Workers Organize!Working USA

This article traces the history of domestic worker organizing in the U.S. It challenges the long-standing assumption that these—primarily...

Macro-Level Determinants of Paid Domestic Labour Prevalence: A Cross-National Analysis of Seventy-Four CountriesSocial Policy and Society

Abstract: The growing demand for domestic workers has been linked to several global developments, such as an ageing population, income inequality,...

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...

Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges

Domestic Work: Mobilising for an ILO Convention

Union View, No 19

Together? On the Not-so-easy Relationship Between Italian Labour Organisations and Migrant Domestic Workers’ Groups

ICDD Working Paper, No. 3

Global and Regional Estimates on Domestic Workers

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers. More information about...

Claiming Rights – Domestic Workers’ Movements

This research paper is a joint project between the International Domestic Workers’ Network (which is supported by WIEGO), the International...

Transforming Lives, Transforming Movement Building: Lessons from the National Domestic Workers Alliance

The Strategy – Organizing – Leadership (SOL) Initiative of the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity is a collaboration with...