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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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    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,...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

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

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  • Research Reports

    Domestic Work: Mobilising for an ILO Convention

    Union View, No 19

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  • Research Reports

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

    ICDD Working Paper, No. 3

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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