This study argues that the spaces limits and strategies in organising domestic workers are
informed and shaped by a country's political economy and labour regime. It is guided by the
theoretical frameworks of Robert Cox's Neo-Gramscian action framework and Social Reproduction
Theory in its analysis. These frameworks of analysis illuminate the relations of social forces
engendered through the particular relations of production and reproduction and they provide
the conceptual tools with which to explain the dimensions of precarity and organising
strategies that shape and constrain the spaces involved in organising migrant domestic workers.
This study proposes that the interlocking dimensions of precarity perpetuate and result in the
cycle of disempowerment disposability and exclusion of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia.
