Title Global Domestic Workers Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights

Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (180 p.) 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 Summary 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 Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. Employee rights Asia Europe South America Form Electronic book Author Cherubini, Daniela ISBN 9781529207903 1529207908 9781529207910 1529207916

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