i 1 3 i WORDS OF LABOUR “(…) the wage depends on the individual agreement you make with each employer, but most of them tell us, that if we had papers they would be glad to give us a regular job.” “(…) the issue of the key is an important one, it is connected with the way you work in this house. If an employer asks you to give back the keys, it is a signal.” Werkwoorden - Words of labour (2017) is a booklet about domestic labour in the Netherlands, published and distributed by the Dutch Trade Union Federation. The stories in it refer to Convention 189 of the ILO (International Labour Organisation), an agreement stating that domestic workers have the same labour rights as regular workers. Words such as 'worker', 'contract', or 'termination of employment' bring to the fore the invisible reality behind the working conditions of domestic workers. Pdf i 5 i