domestic work
Tasks at home
Domestic work is the labor of maintaining a household—cleaning, cooking, laundry, childcare, and similar tasks.
The term often distinguishes this work from employment outside the home, and carries implications about its economic invisibility: Domestic work is work, even when it's unpaid.
A domestic worker is someone employed to perform these tasks in another's home.
- babysittingCaring for others' children temporarily
- dustingRemoving surface grime
- laundryItems needing cleaning
- folding laundryOrganizing washed clothing
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
dishwashing · decluttering · maid · ironing · thankless · second shift · mental load · mopping · food storage · organizing · eldercare · live-in nanny · meal planning · grocery shopping · vacuuming · invisible · bedtime routines · housekeeper
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- labourmanual labour, forced labour, child labour, labourer, toil
- household dutiescleaning, laundry, cooking, dishes, chores
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- informal workside hustle, odd jobs, moonlighting, day labor, freelancing
- Reconstructionfreedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, carpetbaggers
domestic workoffice work
Administrative job tasks
factory work · fieldwork · office job · industrial labor · field work
domestic workcommercial enterprise
Profit-seeking organization
industrial production · professional services · public service · public employment · military service