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BLAs in domestic work [PDF]

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Bilateral Labour Agreement must penalise exploiters of Nepali domestic workers abroad.
Bhagat, A
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The roles that make the domestic work

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 2010
This paper builds on earlier CSCW studies of domestic technologies, looking at the frequent maintenance required by new security technologies that households are adopting to provide safety and security. It explores how the roles and responsibilities are allocated within a household to support these domestic routines.
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Women’s Domestic Work

2000
As discussed in Chapter 1, the term ‘domestic work’ refers to the unpaid work carried out by household members for themselves and each other. This can include routine housework (for example, cooking, cleaning, washing and shopping); non-routine work (for example, gardening, do-it-yourself and car maintenance); and child care which is often considered ...
Abigail Gregory, Jan Windebank
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Divisions of Domestic Work

Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Using a sample of 101 heterosexual, coresidential couples, the author evaluates four housework theories: gender ideology, relative resources, time availability, and doing gender. Unlike some tests of these theories, the author operationalizes gender ideology as an identity, and the author tests the models on the traditionally feminine chores as well as
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Homework and domestic work

Sociological Forum, 1993
This study assesses two competing theories about the extent to which homework-paid work in the home-helps integrate work and domestic roles for men and women. Contrasting male and female homeworkers with their counterparts working outside the home, it supports some aspects of both the resource and role overload theories, but predominantly the role ...
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Domestic Work in California

Families across California rely on more than 330,000 domestic workers to care for their loved ones and keep their homes clean. Yet we find that 67,000 domestic workers in the state lost an average of more than $282 million each year from being paid below the California state minimum wage.
Galvin, Daniel J.   +4 more
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Service and Domestic Work

Abstract This chapter examines service, with a primary focus on domestic service. Service is one of the most frequently represented forms of work in Shakespeare’s plays, which feature numerous characters identified as servants and acting in that capacity during their onstage encounters.
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