Domestic Workers

Working Hours in 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 Chief Technical...

The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

INVISIBLE NO MORE: Domestic workers organizing in Massachusetts and beyond

Labor Studies Faculty Publication Series. Paper 1 

Regulatory Innovation in The Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration

LLDRL Working Paper Series #7

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

ILO: Geneva

Work and Economic Security in the 21st Century: What Can We Learn From Ela Bhatt?

This paper is the result of research on SEWA including an interview with Ela Bhatt, conducted by Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus at the...

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,...