Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
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Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

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

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Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

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

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Arabic Abstract
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Beyond the Weapons of the Weak: Domestic Workers’ Union in Lebanon
  8. 2 Workers without Trade Unions, Trade Unions without Workers
  9. 3 The Missing Worker in “Domestic Worker”: Class Politics and Women’s-Rights Organizations
  10. 4 Women Domestic Workers and Trade-Union Organizing: Challenges and Possibilities
  11. 5 The Prospects for Organizing Migrants in a National Framework
  12. Bibliography
  13. About the Author