Introduction: Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Blackett, Adelle

doi:10.3138/cjwl.23.1.001

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“…International and national bodies have taken decisive steps to promote decent work for domestic workers (see Blackett, 2011 for details). Blackett stresses that transforming the status relationship, notably associated with domestic slavery and forced work, to a work relationship with labour rights and dignity is the essence of the law and the practice in initiatives promoted by ILO.…”

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“…Blackett stresses that transforming the status relationship, notably associated with domestic slavery and forced work, to a work relationship with labour rights and dignity is the essence of the law and the practice in initiatives promoted by ILO. Therefore, it is vital to adopt the ILO Convention 189, more specifically, to include domestic work in the scope of labour legislation; provide social protection and equitable pay, including minimum wage; and guarantee the right to create or join trade unions and to collective bargaining (Blackett, 2011;Caracciolo et al, 2011).…”

Section: Legal Rights: Initiatives and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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Workplace Abuse and Harassment: The Vulnerability of Informal and Migrant Domestic Workers in Portugal

Figueiredo¹,

Suleman²,

Botelho³

2016

Social Policy & Society

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Policy makers and researchers are alarmed by the pervasive substandard working conditions and mistreatment in domestic work worldwide. Using an original dataset from a sample of domestic workers in Portugal (n=684), our study explores types of abuse and harassment and tries to unveil the potential factors affecting the likelihood of having been a victim. Empirical evidence pointed to three segments of domestic workers: victims of labour abuses related to contract and wages, victims of multiple abuses including mistreatment and also psychological and sexual harassment, and a segment with no occurrence of abuse. Informal workers are more often victims of labour abuses, while migrants, especially Brazilian women, are more likely to report all types of abuse and harassment. On the other hand, carers of the elderly often suffered multiple abuses. The results suggest that despite the prevalence of labour abuses in Portugal, the most severe abuses are uncommon.

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Section: Legal Rights: Initiatives and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Legal Rights: Initiatives and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Abuse and Harassment: The Vulnerability of Informal and Migrant Domestic Workers in Portugal

Figueiredo¹,

Suleman²,

Botelho³

2016

Social Policy & Society

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“…También han discutido la efectividad de distintas políticas públicas para mejorar las condiciones laborales de este sector (Tomei, 2011;Bailly, Devetter Y Horn, 2013). Finalmente, las investigaciones han reconstruido la historia de las regulaciones de este 174 tipo de trabajo en distintos escenarios nacionales e internacionales (Blackett, 2011;Boris and Fish, 2015).…”

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Entre lo público y lo privado: empleadores y trabajadoras domésticas frente al Tribunal del Trabajo Doméstico de la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Pérez

Canevaro

2016

Política Soc.

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El servicio doméstico ocupa un lugar ambiguo entre los mundos público y privado. Desarrollado en el interior de los hogares de los empleadores, da lugar a relaciones en las que lo laboral y lo afectivo están imbricados. Los juicios laborales entre empleadores y trabajadoras domésticas constituyen un escenario privilegiado para observar el solapamiento de estas dimensiones. Si las demandas de las trabajadoras frente a las instituciones de justicia sitúan esta relación en el mundo público, las respuestas de los empleadores muchas veces buscan resituarlas en el orden privado. Por otra parte, en algunos escenarios, las demandas de las trabajadoras son también expresadas en un lenguaje que remite a lo privado. En este artículo analizamos las lógicas de la confl ictividad judicial establecidas en las estrategias de empleadores y trabajadoras frente al Tribunal del Trabajo Doméstico (TTD), un organismo creado en 1956 para atender los confl ictos individuales que derivan de las relaciones de trabajo de este sector en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tomamos dos horizontes temporales caracterizados por cambios en la regulación del trabajo, en general, y del servicio doméstico, en particular: el de los primeros años de funcionamiento del TTD y el cambio de siglo.

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“…Accessed 30 July 2017. For more on the regulatory environment see Ashiagbor 2006 andBlackett 2011. biographical narrative. Her story is narrated as a series of institutional pressures, which limit her life opportunities and form her resistant subjectivity, leading to an encounter with modern art and her first sense of deliberate, chosen, self-expression.…”

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Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure

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Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, customary justice, and not-sotimely reparations. Our thoughts take us through the different ways that openness

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Introduction: Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Cited by 43 publications

References 32 publications

Workplace Abuse and Harassment: The Vulnerability of Informal and Migrant Domestic Workers in Portugal

Workplace Abuse and Harassment: The Vulnerability of Informal and Migrant Domestic Workers in Portugal

Entre lo público y lo privado: empleadores y trabajadoras domésticas frente al Tribunal del Trabajo Doméstico de la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure

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