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Domestic Workers of the World Unite!

Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479881430
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Workers of the World Unite! written by Jennifer N. Fish and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Global Domestic Workers

Author : Marchetti, Sabrina
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529207916
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Global Domestic Workers written by Marchetti, Sabrina and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Part of the Family?

Author : Sheila Bapat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935439851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Part of the Family? written by Sheila Bapat and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the rising movement to secure rights for cooks, nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers.

Care Work and Class

Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027106868X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Care Work and Class written by Merike Blofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Recognition of the Rights of Domestic Workers in India

Author : Upasana Mahanta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811357641
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Recognition of the Rights of Domestic Workers in India written by Upasana Mahanta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a set of contributions that examine the complexities associated with domestic work by highlighting not only the legal issues but also exploring the social, psycho-social, economic, and cultural dimensions of domestic work. The book aims to ignite a collective effort towards ensuring decent work for domestic workers and facilitate a public debate on their rights. It includes discussions on the issue of social justice with special emphasis on invisibilization and undervaluation of domestic work, feminization of domestic work, and recognizes the rights of domestic workers as human rights. The issues covered in this book bridge the gap between legal and social dimensions of domestic work and address the discrimination faced by domestic workers in a holistic manner. Given its scope, the book would appeal to both academics (law as well as social science) and non-academics. It will be a useful tool for teachers, students, practitioners, policy-makers and civil society organizations working for the unorganized sector.

Household Workers Unite

Author : Premilla Nadasen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807033197
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Household Workers Unite written by Premilla Nadasen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing. In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known history of domestic-worker activism from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nadasen shows how these women were a far cry from the stereotyped passive and powerless victims; they were innovative labor organizers who tirelessly organized on buses and streets across the United States to bring dignity and legal recognition to their occupation. Dismissed by mainstream labor as “unorganizable,” African American household workers developed unique strategies for social change and formed unprecedented alliances with activists in both the women’s rights and the black freedom movements. Using storytelling as a form of activism and as means of establishing a collective identity as workers, these women proudly declared, “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.” With compelling personal stories of the leaders and participants on the front lines, Household Workers Unite gives voice to the poor women of color whose dedicated struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job created a sustained political movement that endures today. Winner of the 2016 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize

Domestic Service Employees

Author : United States. Employment Standards Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Service Employees written by United States. Employment Standards Administration and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers

Author : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000539695
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers written by Sophie Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Everyday Transgressions

Author : Adelle Blackett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715763
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Transgressions written by Adelle Blackett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social stratification and immigration.― Choice 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.

Hidden in the Home

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden in the Home written by Human Rights Watch and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2001 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report explaining the human rights violations commonly suffered by migrant domestic workers employed in the U.S. under special visa programs and offering specific recommendations for legislation which would eliminate many of these abuses.

Hidden in the Home

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden in the Home written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fair Labor Standards Act

Author : Ellen C. Kearns
Publisher : Bna Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570181085
Total Pages : 1675 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Fair Labor Standards Act written by Ellen C. Kearns and published by Bna Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with background perspective on the Fair Labor Standards Act--and ending with specific litigation issues & strategies--here is your one-source reference to the FLSA & its complex legal applications in today's workplace. A team of eminent specialists from the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law's Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee gives you insights & tactics including: . history & coverage of the FLSA . what constitutes a violation of the Act . exemptions to the law--including white-collar jobs & other statutory exemptions . how to determine compensable hours, minimum wage, & overtime compensation . special issues for federal & state workers . proper recordkeeping procedures . consequences for retaliation by employers . enforcement of the law--and remedies for violations . emerging & volatile topics including child labor, homework, hot goods violations, & much more . plus specific litigation strategies to meet nearly any challenge you may face in handling cases affected by the FLSA.

The Maid's Daughter

Author : Mary Romero
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814660
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Maid's Daughter written by Mary Romero and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a very young age, Olivia left her family and traditions in Mexico to live with her mother, Carmen, in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive and nearly all-white gated communities. Based on over twenty years of research, Romero brings Olivia's remarkable story to life. We watch as she struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of her story is told in Olivia's voice and we hear of both her triumphs and her setbacks. Romero explores this story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia's challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. She shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor. From publisher description.

Legal Rights of Domestic Workers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Legal Rights of Domestic Workers written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domestic Workers Count: Global Data on an Often Invisible Sector

Author : Helen Schwenken
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
ISBN 13 : 386219051X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Workers Count: Global Data on an Often Invisible Sector written by Helen Schwenken and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Legislative Report

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Legislative Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report provides the following information: 1. An overview of the domestic worker industry; 2. An update of labor law enforcement actions related to domestic workers that have been taken; 3. An analysis of existing barriers that may prevent greater enforcement and recommendations for improving enforcement; 4. Recommendations for improving employee compliance through outreach and education"--Introduction.

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Author :
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221218852
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Decent Work for Domestic Workers written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is intended to facilitate the discussion of domestic work at the Conference, and provides information from across the world that may be useful in replying to the questionnaire appended to it. A special effort has been made to identify and examine focused and innovative laws and regulations on domestic workers that are emerging in a number of countries.