By Ruth Castel-Branco
Albertina has been a leader in the struggle for domestic worker justice in Maputo, Mozambique. She is one of at least 37,000 domestic workers working in and around Mozambique’s capital.
Nicknamed the "patience industry" by domestic workers, it is characterized by low wages, long hours and rigorous schedules, humiliating tasks, unhealthy working conditions and vulnerability to abuse. Albertina finds this paradoxical given the intimate nature of the profession.
On the Domestic Workers Session:
The 2013 World Development Report recognizes and focuses on employment as the center of economic development. The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary analysis of five case studies prepared for the 2013 WDR team that illustrate why and how the representative voice and economic rights of urban informal workers should be promoted.
In this manual published by IDWN and ILO, we present the voices, experiences and visions of domestic workers. It aims to stimulate reflection and discussion on domestic work and how domestic workers and their allies can work together towards realizing their objectives.
Compiled and edited by Christine Bonner and Dave Spooner
This guide, published by ILO, is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labour laws, including government officials and representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations.
The African domestic workers network exists to promote and achieve decent work conditions for domestic workers in the region, in the view of the reality that the conditions of their work are generally characterized by insecurity, abuse and exploitation. The network recognizes the critical importance of unionization as a tool for the better. It therefore seeks to promote such unionization in all countries in the Africa region to consolidate a strong call for social justice in respect of domestic workers.
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