Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34,...

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Farah Kobaissy

Organizing the Unorganized

Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 3

Farah Kobaissy

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American University in Cairo Press
12 December 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Social classes; Gender studies: women; Sociology: work & labour; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Cairo Papers in Social Science

A study of workers' rights in a non-unionized field in Lebanon

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.

By: Farah Kobaissy
Imprint: American University in Cairo Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 5mm
ISBN: 9781649032331
ISBN 10: 1649032331
Series: Cairo Papers in Social Science
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arabic Abstract Acknowledgments 1. Beyond the Weapons of the Weak: Domestic Workers’ Union in Lebanon 2. Workers without Trade Unions, Trade Unions without Workers 3. The Missing Worker in “Domestic Worker”: Class Politics and Women’s-Rights Organizations 4. Women Domestic Workers and Trade-Union Organizing: Challenges and Possibilities 5. The Prospects for Organizing Migrants in a National Framework Bibliography About the Author

Farah Kobaissy is senior research assistant at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut (AUB).