Sublime

In the summer of 2020, another landmark ruling found that the time home care workers – the majority of whom were Black or minority ethnic women and were employed on zero-hours contracts – were entitled to pay for the travelling and waiting time between appointments. They’d previously been paid effectively less than half the minimum wage.20

The least fulfilling of all employment, domestic work has also been the most difficult to unionize. As early as 1881, domestic workers were among the women who joined the locals of the Knights of Labor when it rescinded its ban on female membership.37 But many decades later, union organizers seeking to unite domestic workers confronted the very

From Reconstruction to the present, Black women household workers have considered sexual abuse perpetrated by the ‘man of the house’ as one of their major occupational hazards. Time after time they have been victims of extortion on the job, compelled to choose between sexual submission and absolute poverty for themselves and their families. The

economy typically staffed by women and workers of color, such as domestic and agricultural work.

Not only do women across the world produce the workers that keep the global economy in motion. Starting in the early ’90s there has been a leap in female migration from the Global South to the North, where they provide an increasing percentage of the workforce employed in the service sector and domestic labor.