International Labour Review

Special Issue: 

The formalization of paid domestic work: 
Current trajectories and challenges ahead

Guest Editors: Karen JAEHRLING, Francisca PEREYRA and Lorena POBLETE

• Introduction: The formalization of paid domestic work – Current trajectories and challenges ahead, by Karen JAEHRLING, Francisca PEREYRA and Lorena POBLETE
• Unpacking cross-country variations in domestic worker protection regimes: Adopting a policy regime perspective, by Anju Mary PAUL
• Digital platforms in the Italian domestic care sector: The emergence of an unprecedented corporate logic and its implications for workers’ social protection, by Ivana PAIS and Arianna MARCOLIN
• “Legal certainty” for live-in work in Germany: A strategy for formalization? by Eva KOCHER 
• The persistence of informality in paid domestic work in Argentina, by Francisca PEREYRA and Lorena POBLETE
• From dead letter to functional policy? Domestic workers’ rights and “disformality” in Peru, by Leda M. PÉREZ and Andrea GANDOLFI 
• Domestic workers’ organizations and participatory approaches to labour standards enforcement: The case of Jamaica, by Simon BLACK and Lauren MARSH