THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF DOMESTIC WORKERS: GLOBAL INSIGHTS FROM A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Domestic workers face unique challenges due to their informal nature of the work that impact their socio-economic status, health and well-being. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of socio-economics status of global domestic workers research of 24 years of scholarly work (2000-2024) published in Scopus database consisting of 1304 publications. The study uses VOS viewer and Bibliometrix from R studio software to visualise and examine the research trends. The result of the research shows the publications trend has increased significantly post 2020 due to the informal nature of work, restricted mobility of labour during pandemic, migration, emerging technological advancement, increased awareness of their rights, global advocacy and policy movements through International Labour Organisations (ILO). The citation analysis highlights prominent studies conducted globally with influential authors, sources and high volumes of publications. It explored geographical spread of studies emphasising on countries and organisations contribution towards socio-economic status of domestic workers. Furthermore, keywords co-occurrence analysis highlights the key themes and basic concepts within the literature. Despite broad focus on various dimension of socio-economic dimensions, literature has lacuna in qualitative research, underexplored or unexplored areas like technology playing a crucial role, gender-specific challenges faced by domestic workers. The study encourages future research on interdisciplinary approach and emerging issues that is imperative for welfare of domestic workers. The findings provide crucial insights to governments, policy makers, advocacy groups and labour organisations to create global awareness and protect domestic workers rights and well-being.