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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"domestic work"”.
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Domestic work in Cape Town: an exploration into the growth of part-time domestic work
… that between 1994 and 2015, the growth rate of domestic worker employment was slow in comparison to the growth rate of high-income jobs. In Gauteng, the slow growth of domestic worker employment contributed to the overall slow growth of all unskilled jobs. This is because domestic workers …
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Being Dignified: Understanding Socio-Spatial Exploitation and Agency in Nepali Domestic Work
The global labour movement for paid domestic work asserts that domestic work is ‘work’ and domestic workers are ‘workers.’ In Nepal and across South Asia, however, contemporary domestic work continues within quasi-feudalistic and patronage-based systems, entrenched in various forms of unfreedom and …
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A PRIVATE BUSINESS.THE ROLE OF EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF DOMESTIC WORK
… labour intermediaries on the organization of domestic work in Italy. I focus on the impact these intermediaries may have on the high rate of labour informality defining domestic work, as well as on the condition of invisibility of migrant domestic workers, and on the racialized and gendered …
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Regulating domestic work : international and comparative perspectives in South Africa, Namibia and Indonesia
This dissertation evaluates the regulation of domestic work. It approaches this topicfrom an international and national perspective. An international perspective in thiscontext means the regulation of domestic work as an international labour standard bythe International Labour Organization (ILO). …
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THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC: EMPLOYMENT, INCOME AND UNPAID DOMESTIC WORK DURING COVID - 19 PANDEMIC IN EUROPE.
… life across the globe, reshaping how people work, care, and live. Compared to recent global crisis where the initial impact on employment was more severe for men, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis had a significant initial impact on sectors with higher share of women. The abrupt pandemic driven …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
… of the gig economy that are providing platform domestic work in South Africa, more specifically cleaning services. In the platform domestic work model, the provision of domestic service is now undertaken on an on-demand basis and is organized and structured virtually though an online platform or …
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Domestic Work as Decent Work: An Empirical Test of the Predictors of Decent Work To Extend the Psychology of Working Theory
The Psychology of Working Theory (PWT) focuses specifically on the work-based experiences of low-income workers. It is thus a suitable theoretical framework to predict and explain the work experiences of individuals performing domestic work, one of the largest work sectors in South Africa. The …
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“Pay, Protection, and Professionalism”: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing and the Future of Home Health Care in the United States
… slavery and the devaluing of so-called “women’s work” explain how the field of domestic work has been historically excluded from protection and regulation in the United States. Caring for children and keeping house have been women’s work for centuries, regardless of whether women were paid to do …
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An investigation of the challenges being faced by female domestic workers in Thulamahashe Area of Mpumalanga Province
Domestic work is vital employment opportunity which exists worldwide. Domestic workers play a pivotal role in supporting the labor market and economy at large. However unlike any other employment opportunities in the world, domestic work is often gender biased. This study was aimed at unpacking the …
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Essays on Women's Empowerment and Economic Development in Iran
… identified with greater participation in market work and access to an independent source of income. In the past two decades Iranian women have increased their education, lowered their fertility, but their labor force participation remains low. In this chapter we examine the role of education in …
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Comfortable others: the process of identity niching among private employment agencies, employers and migrant domestic workers
… the process of “identity niching” in the domestic work sector by focusing on the role of and demand for the services of private employment agencies (PEAs) that specialise in placements in Cape Town. The thesis focuses on how Zimbabwean migrant domestic workers' (MDWs) identity as …
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The invisible weight of cognitive labor
Cognitive labor is the mental work it takes to run a home. This type of labor, separate from physical tasks, is a form of domestic labor that often goes unnoticed, it is often invisible. This invisible mechanism that shapes our home life has historically been excluded from research on topics …
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Puntada Mitocondrial/Abuela Debe Ser Tiempo
… the code of words and the page. I argue that domestic labor dynamics are conceptual invitations to create with words. According to Federici, domestic work produces the labor force, a fact naturalized in the nuclear family as women's work (Patriarcado del…10-18). This leads women to avoid …
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A study of learning, knowledge and processes of reflection within the Worker Education Project
There are over a million women domestic workers in South Africa who are largely overworked,underpaid, unprotected, and undervalued and who are entrenched in a system that denies and reduces the value of their work and their skills. Such conditions are invariably tied to contexts that are …
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Invisible children: the rights of domestic child workers in South Africa
… 16–17 who are school dropouts and employed as domestic workers in South Africa. This is a violation of their rights and occurs in their employment in domestic work, which can be considered a worst form of child labour in third party households in South Africa. This type of work deprives these …
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IL FEMMINISMO PER IL SALARIO AL LAVORO DOMESTICO IN ITALIA: GENEALOGIE, PRATICHE E PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI
… and practices of the Italian Wages for Housework movement, which emerged in the early 1970s and soon acquired a transnational dimension. It investigates how activists within Lotta Femminista and, later, the Network of Committees and Groups for Wages for Housework redefined the notion of …
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
This dissertation examines the representation of working-class women in the literary and cultural production of 20th Century Mexico. Chapter 2, “Sirvientas, Patronas, and Housework: The Place of Domestic Work in Mexican Culture,” looks at the relationships between women of opposing social strata in …
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Cooking and Eating the Other: Contemporary Representations of Domestic Workers in Popular Media
… negatively influences public perception of housework and the women who perform the labor and thwarts efforts to obtain and enforce legislation to protect native and immigrant domestic workers. Using contemporary representations from <em>The Help</em>, <em>August: Osage County</em>, <em>The …
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