Domestic Workers Across The World

Author : Marchetti, Sabrina,Cherubini, Daniela,Giulia Garofalo Geymonat
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529207880

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Global Domestic Workers by Marchetti, Sabrina,Cherubini, Daniela,Giulia Garofalo Geymonat Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights. The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from migrants and low-income groups to racialized and rural girls and women. Casting light on issues such as subjectification, and collective organizing on the part of a category of workers conventionally regarded as unorganizable, this ambitious volume will be invaluable for scholars, policy makers and activists alike.

Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479881437

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Domestic Workers of the World Unite! by Jennifer N. Fish Pdf

From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized, negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of international standards for care work protections by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. This landmark victory not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers’ demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to consider human rights as a central component of workers’ rights. Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so few resources could organize and act within the world’s most powerful international structures and give voice to the wider global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone with a stake in international human and workers’ rights, this is a critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.

Author : Malte Luebker,International Labour Organization,Martin Oelz,Yamila Simonovsky,International Labour Office. Conditions of Work and Employment Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221252736

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Domestic Workers Across the World by Malte Luebker,International Labour Organization,Martin Oelz,Yamila Simonovsky,International Labour Office. Conditions of Work and Employment Branch Pdf

This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often "invisible" behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation.The adoption of new international labour standards on domestic work (Convention No. 189 and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201) by the ILO at its 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011 represents a key milestone on the path to the realisation of decent work for domestic workers. This volume presents national statistics and new global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers. It shows that domestic workers represent a significant share of the labour force worldwide and that domestic work is an important source of wage employment for women, especially in Latin America and Asia. It also examines the extent of inclusion or exclusion of domestic workers from key working conditions laws. In particular, it analyses how many domestic workers are covered by working time provisions, minimum wage legislation and maternity protection. The results demonstrate that under current national laws, substantial gaps in protection still remain. The volume concludes with a summary of the main findings and a reflection on the relevance of the newly adopted international standards to extend legal protection to domestic workers.

Author : Adelle Blackett
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501715778

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Everyday Transgressions by Adelle Blackett Pdf

Adelle Blackett tells the story behind the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 which in 2011 created the first comprehensive international standards to extend fundamental protections and rights to the millions of domestic workers laboring in other peoples' homes throughout the world. As the principal legal architect, Blackett is able to take us behind the scenes to show us how Convention No. 189 transgresses the everyday law of the household workplace to embrace domestic workers' human rights claim to be both workers like any other, and workers like no other. In doing so, she discusses the importance of understanding historical forms of invisibility, recognizes the influence of the domestic workers themselves, and weaves in poignant experiences, infusing the discussion of laws and standards with intimate examples and sophisticated analyses. Looking to the future, she ponders how international institutions such as the ILO will address labor market informality alongside national and regional law reform. Regardless of what comes next, Everyday Transgressions establishes that domestic workers' victory is a victory for the ILO and for all those who struggle for an inclusive, transnational vision of labor law, rooted in social justice.

Author : Bridget Anderson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1856497615

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Doing the Dirty Work? by Bridget Anderson Pdf

There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level. The book opens with an exploration of the public/private divide and an overview of the debates on women and power. The author goes on to provide a map of employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work in the North; she describes the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. A chapter on the US explores the connections between slavery and contemporary domestic service while a section on commodification examines the extent to which migrant domestic workers are not selling their labour but their whole personhood. The book also looks at the role of the Other in managing dirt, death and pollution and the effects of the feminisation of the labour market - as middle class white women have greater presence in the public sphere, they are more likely to push responsibility for domestic work onto other women. In its depiction of the treatment of women from the South by women in the North, the book asks some difficult questions about the common bond of womanhood. Packed with information on the numbers of migrant women working as domestics, the racism, immigration or employment legislation that constrains their lives, and testimonies from the workers themselves, this is the most comprehensive study of migrant domestic workers available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004280144

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Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers by Anonim Pdf

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.

Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271068688

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Care Work and Class by Merike Blofield Pdf

Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.

Author : Claudia Liebelt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452627

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Caring for the 'Holy Land' by Claudia Liebelt Pdf

In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the ‘Holy Land’ for the predominantly devout Christian Filipina women and is at the center of an often violent conflict, which affects Filipinos in many ways. In the literature, migrant domestic workers are often described as being subject to racial discrimination, labour exploitation and exclusion from mainstream society. Here, the author provides a more nuanced account and shows how Filipina caregivers in Israel have succeeded in creating their own collective spaces, as well as negotiating rights and belonging. While maintaining transnational ties and engaging in border-crossing journeys, these women seek to fulfill their dreams of a better life. During this process, new socialities and subjectivities emerge that point to a form of global citizenship in the making, consisting of greater social, economic and political rights within a highly gendered and racialized global economy.

Author : Rhacel Parreñas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804796187

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Servants of Globalization by Rhacel Parreñas Pdf

Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families. With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers. Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9221231038

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Decent Work for Domestic Workers by International Labour Office Pdf

Proposed text for discussion at the 100th session of the Conference slated for June 2011. This is to carry out the decision, made during the 99th session in June 2010, to revisit the topic for a second discussion.

Author : Helma Lutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317096436

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Migration and Domestic Work by Helma Lutz Pdf

Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families and single people, for double or single parents as well as for the elderly. Performing the three C's - cleaning, caring and cooking - domestic workers offer their woman power on a global market which Europe has become part of. This global market is now considered the largest labour market for women world wide and it has triggered the feminization of migration. This volume brings together contributions by European and US based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. The volume also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work; it asks why the re-introduction of domestic workers in European households has become so popular and will argue that this phenomenon is challenging gender theories. This is a timely book and will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of migration, gender and European studies.

Author : Margaret Rodman Critchlow,Daniela Kraemer,Lissant Bolton,Jean Tarisesei
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824830120

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House-Girls Remember by Margaret Rodman Critchlow,Daniela Kraemer,Lissant Bolton,Jean Tarisesei Pdf

Giving voice to the women who worked as maids—known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu—is the goal of this innovative work. The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories contribute to theorizing intimacy and traveling culture; and their struggles with adverse working conditions help find solutions, which are outlined at the end of the book. In addition to contributions by the editors, workshop reports by eleven ni-Vanuatu women fieldworkers and ten others who spoke about their lives as house-girls are included. These reports detail ni-Vanuatu women’s experiences as domestic workers during the colonial period. One chapter presents an elderly French woman’s recollections of the Vietnamese orphan who grew up in her home and worked as a house-girl. Material from contemporary house-girls appears in a final chapter based on research conducted in Port Vila.

Author : Professor Anna Triandafyllidou
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409473923

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Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe by Professor Anna Triandafyllidou Pdf

With specific attention to irregular migrant workers - that is to say, those without legal permits to stay in the countries in which they work - this volume focuses on domestic work, presenting studies from ten European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Offering a comparative analysis of irregular migrants engaged in all kinds of domestic work, the authors explore questions relating to employment conditions, health issues and the family lives of migrants. The book examines the living and working conditions of irregular migrant domestic workers, their relations with employers, their access to basic rights such as sick leave, sick pay, and holiday pay, as well as access to health services. Close consideration is also given to the challenges for family life presented by workers' status as irregular migrants, with regard to their lives both in their countries of origin and with their employers. Through analyses of the often blurred distinction between legality and illegality, the notion of a ‘career’ in domestic work and the policy responses of European nations to the growth of irregular migrant domestic work, this volume offers various conceptual developments in the study of migration and domestic work. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists with interests in migration, gender, the family and domestic work.

Author : B. Fernandez,M. de Regt,Gregory Currie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137482112

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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East by B. Fernandez,M. de Regt,Gregory Currie Pdf

For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Domestics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Swept Under the Rug by Anonim Pdf