Global Domestic Workers Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights.

Global Domestic Workers Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights.

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...

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Main Author: Marchetti, Sabrina
Other Authors: Cherubini, Daniela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Household employees > Civil rights > Europe.
Household employees > Civil rights > South America.
Household employees > Civil rights > Asia.
Employee rights > Europe.
Employee rights > South America.
Employee rights > Asia.
Online Access:Full text (Open Access)
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Domestic workers' rights go global
  • Intersectionality in action
  • Feminism and domestic workers' struggles
  • Reproductive labour
  • Care economy and migration
  • Challenging sisterhood
  • A multi-layered approach to domestic workers' rights
  • Methodology
  • Structure of the book
  • 2 Scenarios of Domestic Workers' Rights
  • Philippines
  • Taiwan
  • India
  • Brazil
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • 3 Global Rights and Local Struggles
  • The rights of domestic workers as a 'global' issue
  • Strategic fields of action around the C189 process
  • C189 as an external shock
  • Goals
  • Actors
  • Interpretative frames
  • Four variants of the C189 process at a national level
  • Ecuador and Philippines
  • Colombia and Brazil
  • India, Taiwan and Spain
  • Italy and Germany
  • 4 Domestic Workers Making Intersectionality
  • A new collective identity
  • The legacy of slavery
  • Afro-descendant women in post-war society
  • Putting race aside
  • Activities and political demands
  • Equality beyond rights
  • Naming domestic work
  • Empowering domestic workers
  • 5 Feminism and Domestic Workers: Different Positionalities, Discursive Convergences
  • Disconnections from feminist movements
  • Different feminist positionalities
  • Expanding feminist discursive frames
  • The valorization of reproductive labour
  • The transnational commodification of care
  • 6 Conclusion: Intersectionality in Action
  • The relationship between global rights and local struggles
  • Making change happen from an intersectional perspective
  • The role of feminist and women's rights activists
  • Beyond domestic workers
  • Appendix: List of Interview Participants
  • Brazil
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • India
  • Italy
  • Philippines
  • Spain
  • Taiwan
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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