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Domestic Workers of the World Unite
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Returning home empty handed: Examining how COVID-19 exacerbates the non-payment of temporary migrant workers’ wages
Laura Foley,Nicola Piper +1 more
TL;DR: The crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the world of work, with many workers losing their jobs or with insufficient safety measures in place for those still in work.
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Untenable dichotomies: de-gendering political economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the gender subtext of foundational dichotomies in political economy, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing, and propose a method to identify gender sub-texts of these dichosies.
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Queer, brown, migrant: documenting the Hong Kong ‘Helper’
TL;DR: This paper explored how domestic workers in Hong Kong are represented as forcibly queered, forced by circumstance, in the documentaries The Sunday Beauty Queen (2017) and The Helper (2017).
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Feminist Entanglements with the Neoliberal Welfare State: NGOS and Domestic Worker Organizing in South Korea
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the multifaceted challenges that feminist labor organizations face in decommodifying the lives and labor of poor and working-class women, and find that non-governmental organizations such as the National House Managers Cooperative and the Korean Women Workers Association became entangled in hegemonic state projects that linked support for women's basic livelihoods to the proliferation of part-time, informal domestic work in the context of widespread crises.
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The ILO Domestic Workers Convention and regulatory reforms in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. A comparative study of working time and remuneration regulations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the role played by Convention No. 189 on regulatory reforms, focusing on the legislative measures taken in three Latin American countries that have ratified it: Argentina, Chile and Paraguay.
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Returning home empty handed: Examining how COVID-19 exacerbates the non-payment of temporary migrant workers’ wages
Laura Foley,Nicola Piper +1 more
TL;DR: The crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the world of work, with many workers losing their jobs or with insufficient safety measures in place for those still in work.
Journal ArticleDOI
Untenable dichotomies: de-gendering political economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the gender subtext of foundational dichotomies in political economy, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing, and propose a method to identify gender sub-texts of these dichosies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Queer, brown, migrant: documenting the Hong Kong ‘Helper’
TL;DR: This paper explored how domestic workers in Hong Kong are represented as forcibly queered, forced by circumstance, in the documentaries The Sunday Beauty Queen (2017) and The Helper (2017).
Book ChapterDOI
Feminist Entanglements with the Neoliberal Welfare State: NGOS and Domestic Worker Organizing in South Korea
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the multifaceted challenges that feminist labor organizations face in decommodifying the lives and labor of poor and working-class women, and find that non-governmental organizations such as the National House Managers Cooperative and the Korean Women Workers Association became entangled in hegemonic state projects that linked support for women's basic livelihoods to the proliferation of part-time, informal domestic work in the context of widespread crises.
Journal ArticleDOI
The ILO Domestic Workers Convention and regulatory reforms in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. A comparative study of working time and remuneration regulations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the role played by Convention No. 189 on regulatory reforms, focusing on the legislative measures taken in three Latin American countries that have ratified it: Argentina, Chile and Paraguay.