Domestic Workers

Making domestic work visible: The case for specific regulation

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici 

Care Work: The Quest for Security

CSI Guía de acción – Trabajo decente, vida decente para los trabajadores y trabajadoras del hogar

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly)...

Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal Protection

This report attempts to capture the size of the domestic work sector in the world for 2010 of 52.6 million. According to the latest data...

Home Truths: Wellbeing and Vulnerabilities of Child 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.

Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned...

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...