Domestic Workers

The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011

Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.  Resource is subscription only.

Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa

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...

Bad Dreams: Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia

Domestic Labour: Global Facts and Figures in Brief

Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

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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...

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries