.... Originality/value The paper aims to provide ground-level insights to policymakers focusing on the domestic work sector, and the gaps identified in the research will help the policymakers to frame the guidelines for the betterment of these informal domestic workers. Working in this sector does not come...

... in subsistence work to be primarily about the construction of self‐identity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Russia National economy Production economics Subsistence economy Self‐service economy Domestic work Housework Livelihoods Moscow For much of the last century...