Global Domestic Workers Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Otros Autores: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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