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Over half of the world's workers are in the informal economy, where low wages, job insecurity, safety hazards, and lack of social protection and rights are common. By promoting formal businesses, quality jobs, and labour and social protection for all, we can clear obstacles on the path to #DecentWork. #ThisWayToSocialJustice

All workers – from agriculture to manufacturing and garment industries, from informal, home-based, domestic, to migrant workers, from caregivers, health to platform workers - have all endured the deleterious effects of neoliberal systems and corporate greed for a long time. Workers, especially women workers and women migrants are forced to deal with low-wage work with poor and unsafe working conditions just to survive.  In commemoration of the International #DecentWorkDay on October 7, APWLD together with partners and members across the Asia-Pacific region unite together in demanding #DecentWork4All especially to women workers and women migrants. Together, we call on employers and governments to provide #decentwork by providing living wages, ensuring social protection of workers and strengthening workers’ participatory democracy.

Workers aged 45+ remain unemployed longer. And, as a growing portion of the workforce, they need pathways to get into and stay engaged in meaningful work. Find out more in the #MidcareerOpportunity report we developed with OECD - OCDE 👉https://lnkd.in/dNMkZZZ7

On this Labour Day, let's salute the sweat and toil that build nations and communities. Here's to honoring the dignity of labor and striving for a world where every worker is valued and respected. #LabourDay2024 #WorkersRights #LaborDayCelebration #FairWagesFairWork #HonoringLabor #GlobalWorkers #DignityofLabor

New paper alert! ⭕ Advocating for Survival: Domestic Workers in the Necropolitical Regime of the Pandemic https://lnkd.in/dgtYRetG ⭕ During the COVID-19 pandemic, advocating for basic protections has become a matter of survival for domestic workers. ⭕ With the onset of COVID-19, this largely female and immigrant workforce was expected to take on dangerous care duties with little protection against disease and death. ⭕ We apply a necropolitical feminist analysis to expose the underlying logic of the deadly (virus) regime and to highlight how the movement counteracted that logic in the United States. ⭕ I and Elizabeth Pellerito have wrestled to give our analysis of the advocacy part of the activity of the organizations such as Matahari Women Workers Center, Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers, National Domestic Workers Alliance, CA Domestic Workers Coalition, Brazilian Women's Group - Grupo Mulher Brasileira, Dominican Development Center, and many others, during the pandemic a proper theoretical angle. ⭕ At one point we stumbled upon the necropolitcal lense (I rememebr an a-ha! moment after the discussion with Michalina Augusiak on the situation on PL-BY border). ⭕ Necropolitics is basically an analysis of the unequal distribution of the conditions for life and especially, death in society. Sounds familiar? Yeah, so we thought. ⭕ The neo-liberal regime during the pandemic respected and protected some lives more (the middle class, the work-from-home ones, the white) while exposed and neglected others (the working class, large part of the 'essential workers', people of color). ⭕ The organizations have done everything in their power to right the imbalanced and unfair distribution of care and protection, also at the level of law and public policies. We interpret their advocacy work as a matter of survival. ⭕ The paper is out for two weeks now, but it came out when I was down with COVID, hence the delay. Let me know if you want a copy here or @dr.anna.maria.rosinska@gmail.com! ⭕ The paper was first presented at the Carework Network Virtual Symposium in March 2022 and we wish to express our gratitude to Nancy Folbre who commented on the article. The earlier versions were presented at the Virtual 2021 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 6–10, 2021, and the International Labour Organization C189 10th Anniversary–European event, June 28–29, 2022. We thank Eline Westra who has read and shared comments on the article. I thank the Centre of Migration Research online writing group for continuing support. The paper is based on research carried out when I was a visiting scholar at University of Massachusetts Lowell and working at Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia 🙂

The domestic workers' global movement celebrates the International Day of Care and Support by calling on decision-makers to: - Recognize domestic workers as part of the care workforce. - Ensure access to quality public care services for domestic workers. - Ensure the right to social protection. - Guarantee decent work and equal rights (equal pay for equal work), in compliance with ILO C189. - Ensure health and safety at work. - Ensure the protection of migrant workers. - Promote freedom of association. - Encourage social dialogue, strengthen the right to collective bargaining, and include domestic workers in the care economy agenda. - Promote DWs' valorization and skills recognition. Read the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/dCgGPRap Let’s recognize the central role of #DomesticWorkers in the care economy. #TimeToCareAndSupport #DomesticWorkIsCareWork #DomesticWorkersAreCareWorkers #InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport #CareForThoseWhoCareForYou #Care2023

There are 21 million people working in the most underpaid, undervalued jobs in our country — and nearly two-thirds of these workers are women, according to a new report from the National Women's Law Center. Find out how paying them more can boost the GDP in my latest Forbes for Consciously Unbiased. #genderequality #minimumwage #equalpay #economy

#Midcareer and older workers are an asset in the workplace, but their value is consistently underestimated by employers and policymakers – and by midcareer and older workers themselves. Find out more in our #MidcareerOpportunity research developed with OECD - OCDE 👇 https://lnkd.in/dFmXSxz

Income inequality is on the rise, making it no surprise that the C-suite faces criticism for being out of touch with the daily struggles of average workers. This disconnect can breed dissatisfaction, impair decision-making, and harm reputation. Should HR step in to bridge this gap? How can they do it effectively? Read on for more: https://bit.ly/4cJkrLj #IncomeInequality #HR #WorkplaceEquality #PayTransparency #CSuite

Income inequality is on the rise, making it no surprise that the C-suite faces criticism for being out of touch with the daily struggles of average workers. This disconnect can breed dissatisfaction, impair decision-making, and harm reputation. Should HR step in to bridge this gap? How can they do it effectively? Read on for more: https://bit.ly/4cJkrLj #IncomeInequality #HR #WorkplaceEquality #PayTransparency #CSuite