UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Essential yet excluded: COVID-19 and the decent work deficit among domestic workers in Brazil

Acciari, Louisa; Dos Santos Brito, Chirlene; Pereira Pinto, Cleide; (2024) Essential yet excluded: COVID-19 and the decent work deficit among domestic workers in Brazil. International Labour Review 10.1111/ilr.12402. (In press). Green open access

[thumbnail of Essential yet excluded  COVID 19 and the decent work deficit among domestic.pdf]
Preview
Text
Essential yet excluded COVID 19 and the decent work deficit among domestic.pdf - Published Version

Download (394kB) | Preview

Abstract

This article presents data from a survey conducted with the National Federation of Domestic Workers of Brazil on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic workers, also considering emergency policies and the Federation's main actions in the first year of the crisis. Focusing on employment and income, occupational health and safety, and violations of rights, it shows the extreme polarization between those who lost their livelihoods and those obliged to continue working at the expense of their health and basic human rights. Although the circumstances were exceptional, the authors argue that this situation was made possible by pre-existing conditions of legal exclusion and precarity.

Type: Article
Title: Essential yet excluded: COVID-19 and the decent work deficit among domestic workers in Brazil
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12402
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12402
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2023 The Authors. International Labour Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Labour Organization. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Domestic workers, COVID-19, decent work, Brazil, employment, income, occupational health and safety, workers’ rights
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188675
Downloads since deposit
20Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item