Informal domestic labour and migration: opportunity towards a different approach on the labour market
Abstract
This paper intends to show, that the current
marginalization of domestic labour runs in the
detriment of both the workers and the needs
of the labour market. It is strongly contested
whether domestic labour in its current form
can meet the demands of a fl exible and
economic and social environment. At the
core of discussions on new, fl exible forms
of organization of labour one usually fi nds
economic sectors involving high skills and
added value. However, the diffusion of fl exible
employment schemes is related not only with
more high skill jobs in the labour market
but also with the creation of infrastructures
and niches able to support them. In this
context, a pathway towards the viability of
the marginalized niche of domestic labour
is discussed. Key position in this venture
is that the devaluation of domestic labour
is the product of a social – and therefore
manageable and reversible – process.
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Μαρούκης Θ. (2016). Informal domestic labour and migration: opportunity towards a different approach on the labour market. Social Cohesion and Development, 4(1), 95–108. https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.8908
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