Domestic Workers

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...

Domestic Work, Conditions of Work and Employment: A Legal Perspective

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

Home is Where the Work is: Inside New York’s Domestic Work Industry

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

Indonesia: Exploitation and Abuse: The Plight of Women Domestic Workers

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.

Neoliberal austerity and the marketisation of elderly careSocial and Cultural Geography

Taking the recent debate on austerity as a starting point, this paper discusses contradictions in current processes of neoliberalisation...

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...

Paid Care Providers in South Africa: Nurses, Domestic Workers, and Home-Based Care Workers