{"id":24957,"date":"2026-08-09T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/?page_id=24957"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:39:16","slug":"from-the-margins-to-the-citadel-domestic-workers-and-a-new-moral-economy-of-the-labor-market","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-114\/volume-114-issue-6-june-2026\/from-the-margins-to-the-citadel-domestic-workers-and-a-new-moral-economy-of-the-labor-market\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Margins to the Citadel: Domestic Workers and a New Moral Economy of the Labor Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><i>This Essay takes as a starting point federal retrenchment in workers\u2019 rights <\/i><i>to envision a stronger legal regime the domestic workers\u2019 movement inspired. <\/i><i>That movement has driven twelve states, two cities, and the District of <\/i><i>Columbia to adopt Domestic Workers\u2019 Bills of Rights, extending long-denied <\/i><i>labor protections while also pioneering new rights and a participatory regu<\/i><i>latory institution. These victories<\/i><span class=\"s1\">\u2014<\/span><i>uneven though they may be<\/i><span class=\"s1\">\u2014<\/span><i>reveal not <\/i><i>only discrete <\/i><i>rules but also the contours of a new moral economy of the labor <\/i><i>market: a framework of values, norms, and institutions that reshape work <\/i><i>relations and redefine workers\u2019 role in the political economy. Although enact<\/i><i>ing a comprehensive federal statute that extends these gains to all U.S. work<\/i><i>ers is quixotic at present, reformers can focus on consolidating these rights <\/i><i>for domestic <\/i><i>workers and for all other workers and on seizing future opportu<\/i><i>nities to press for federal legislation when the time is ripe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/08\/Rosado-Marzan_From-the-Margins-to-the-Citadel.pdf\"><strong><em>From the Margins to the Citadel: Domestic Workers and a New Moral Economy of the Labor Market<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/08\/Rosado-Marzan_From-the-Margins-to-the-Citadel.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Rosado-Marzan_From-the-Margins-to-the-Citadel<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Essay takes as a starting point federal retrenchment in workers\u2019 rights to envision a stronger legal regime the domestic workers\u2019 movement inspired. That movement has driven twelve states, two cities, and the District of Columbia to adopt Domestic Workers\u2019 Bills of Rights, extending long-denied labor protections while also pioneering new rights and a participatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13871,"featured_media":0,"parent":24941,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24957","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24958,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24957\/revisions\/24958"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}