domestic workers
Maids and butlers
Domestic workers are people employed in private households to perform tasks like cleaning, cooking, childcare, or elder care.
The term encompasses housekeepers, nannies, home health aides, and similar roles.
Domestic workers are often excluded from standard labor protections.
The phrase emphasizes the work as legitimate employment rather than informal help.
- domesticsHousehold service workers
- nanniesProfessional child caretakers
- servantsHired household workers
- below stairsServant domain of house
- back stairsPrivate secondary staircase
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- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- workforceemployee, employees, labor force, employer, worker
- servantsbutler, maid, servant, servants, domestics
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
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Employees in manufacturing facilities
industrial workers · office workers · factory laborers · agricultural workers · construction workers
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Business organization's hired workers
unionized workers · government employees · organized labor · government workers · public sector workers
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Those who hire staff
homeowners · householders · masters · mistresses · heads of household
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