UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Worker Centers play a pivotal role in advocating for the rights and conditions of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. The thesis of this article contends that Worker Centers, along with care workers themselves, hold transformative potential in reshaping the conditions and rights of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. This article analyzes and discusses the work of Germany and U.S.-American Worker Centers with domestic care workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania in Germany to effect change in working and living conditions of domestic care workers in home care arrangements.