The negotiation of the convention "Decent work for domestic workers" at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2010/2011 counters domestic workers' invisibility. The paper engages with the question of how domestic workers mobilize towards a convention and how they cope with international negotiations given challenges such as the peculiar terrain of ILO's tripartism. Through an analysis of the content of the convention, the paper argues that the framing of domestic work as a labour issue makes the so far invisible labour relation between domestic workers and their employers visible and promotes a rights-based approach, at the cost, however, of obscuring other dimensions such as the gendered and international division of labour.

International Labour Organization Women domestic workers Women's movements Women and migration Globalization of labor

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