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Domestic worker

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Synonymes ou variantes : Homecare worker
Équivalents : Trabajador doméstico
Travailleur domestique
Domaine : Travailleur

Définition

A person performing work in or for a household or households.

Description

A domestic worker may live at his employer's home or outside of it.

"Many of the international domestic workers and caregivers who leave their homes to care for others abroad also have their own children and elders to look after. Migrant women usually either pass on this responsibility to other female relatives - or, with their higher foreign earnings, hire lower-income domestic workers to manage their own households. This phenomenon is known as the ‘global care chain,'an international system of caregiving stratified by class and, often, ethnicity."
(United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), A Mighty but Silent River: Women and Migration, 2006, visited 2011-02-22)

"Recent ILO estimates [in 2011] based on national surveys and/or censuses of 117 countries, place the number of domestic workers at around 53 million. However, experts say that due to the fact that this kind of work is often hidden and unregistered, the total number of domestic workers could be as high as 100 million. In developing countries, they make up at least 4 to 12 per cent of wage employment. Around 83 per cent of these workers are women or girls and many are migrant workers."
(International Labour Organization (ILO), ILO News, 2011, visited 2011-06-23)

Relations sémantiques

Hiérarchiques
Générique INFORMAL ECONOMY WORKER
Associatives
Législation C189 Domestic Workers Convention, 2011
Lieu typique Domestic work sector
Dictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du travail
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