Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 3

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Civics, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
Cover of the book Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon by Farah Kobaissy, The American University in Cairo Press
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Author: Farah Kobaissy ISBN: 9781617978531
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press Publication: March 1, 2017
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press Language: English
Author: Farah Kobaissy
ISBN: 9781617978531
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Publication: March 1, 2017
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Language: English

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality. The author situates this struggle within the larger scene of the labor union 'movement' in the country, and discusses the contribution of women's rights organizations in rendering visible cases of abuse against migrant domestic workers. She argues that the 'death' of class politics has made women's rights organizations address migrant domestic worker issues as a separate labor category, further contributing to their production as an 'exception' under neoliberalism.

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This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality. The author situates this struggle within the larger scene of the labor union 'movement' in the country, and discusses the contribution of women's rights organizations in rendering visible cases of abuse against migrant domestic workers. She argues that the 'death' of class politics has made women's rights organizations address migrant domestic worker issues as a separate labor category, further contributing to their production as an 'exception' under neoliberalism.

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