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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493748003321

Autore

Marchetti Sabrina

Titolo

Global Domestic Workers : Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights / / Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofalo Geymonat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol University Press, 2021

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2021

ISBN

1-5292-0792-4

1-5292-0780-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 165 pages)

Disciplina

331.76164

Soggetti

Employee rights - Asia

Employee rights - South America

Employee rights - Europe

Household employees - Civil rights - Asia

Household employees - Civil rights - South America

Household employees - Civil rights - Europe

Electronic books.

Asia

Europe

South America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Scenarios of domestic workers' rights -- Global rights and local struggles -- Domestic workers making intersectionality -- Feminism and domestic workers : different positionalities, discursive convergences -- Conclusion : intersectionality in action.

Sommario/riassunto

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.