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.
