Dictionary definition: domestic labor

Article: 10 million children exploited in domestic labor, ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 11, 2004 ;     672 words ... ... million children exploited in domestic labor, says ILO report GENEVA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Child domestic labor, a widespread and growing global ... in sometimes hazardous forms of domestic labor for the first time on a global ...

Encyclopedia entry: Domestic Labor
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      700+ words ...Domestic Labor. Since the Colonial Era , domestic labor has been a significant contributor to economic production and development in America. While domestic labor encompasses a wide range of market and nonmarket activities ...

Article: Feature: Long march to free Philippine child domestic ...
Xinhua News Agency;  January 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... march to free Philippine child domestic labor from "virtual prison cell" Manila ... for legal prohibition of child domestic labor, Renelyn knew that she could ... hope. Like half of the child domestic labor, Renelyn comes from a family ...

Article: Mexican immigrant women and the new domestic labor
Human Organization;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... and who form part of a "new" domestic labor in Santa Barbara, California ... emerge: at the local level the domestic labor market is more heterogeneous than ... a multiplicity of forms. The domestic labor market is, in turn, polarized ...

Article: Asian nations to continue fighting child domestic ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 5, 2002 ;     585 words ... ... nations to continue fighting child domestic labor BANGKOK, Oct. 5 (Xinhua ... discussions on the issues of child domestic labor and reached agreements on several ... wide-spread problem of child domestic labor, including setting up regional ...

Article: Affluent suburbs to get jolt with domestic labor
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 1, 1987 ;     575 words ... ... suburbs of Lake Forest, Deerfield, Glencoe and Highland Park, families that have hired illegals as au pairs and other domestic labor are weighing the risks of taking in undocumented Hispanics, Asians or Europeans, who have become visible parts of ...

Article: Debugging immigration. (immigrants with computer skills versus ...
National Review;  October 9, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Valley were nearly $7,000 lower than for natives of the same age and level of education. There is no shortage of domestic labor. Working with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Softpac of Austin, Texas, estimates that the software ...