Article Domestic Workplace: Critical Crossroads of Unorganized Labour and Management Debasis Poddar 1 Abstract In the world of work at large, domestic workplace constitutes an altogether different space for hitherto labour jurisprudence and more so in the given age of liberalization-privatization-globalization worldwide. The way workforce used to get together at workplace and thereby unionized to form trade union in factory, mine, plantation and other establishments cannot take place anyway in case of domestic workplace. No wonder that the same attracts attention of relevant stakeholders on several counts, for example, labour on the one side and management on the other side. The author explores peculiarity of such workplace, issues involved therein along with means and methods to address major hurdles for management and labour studies to grapple with one among the least explored workplaces of the world. The forthcoming paragraphs are meant to grapple with relative (read comparative) vulnerability for members of the workforce inside a space otherwise meant for private individual use, albeit with the potential for abuse to gross detriment of the workforce and, at times, of the management as well. With recent focus of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the labour wing of the UN administration and one among the oldest institutions meant for global governance since the League of Nations regime, a unique trajectory of labour jurisprudence is on its wise to save stakeholders of the workplace from drudgery, if not vagary, of injustice with impunity. The hitherto private space is thereby increasingly converted to public space during its working hours in technical sense of the term and thereby subjected to the rule of law genre available elsewhere outside. Keywords Labour, unorganized, alienated, dehumanized, vulnerability Introduction Domestic service is indeed one among the oldest service sectors since the time immemorial with little recognition for the vulnerability out of victimization involved therein. Thus, those engaged in this Management and Labour Studies 43(1&2) 46–57 © 2018 XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources SAGE Publications sagepub.in/home.nav DOI: 10.1177/0258042X18754429 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mls 1 Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Corresponding author: Debasis Poddar, Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Study and Research in Law, Kanke-Pithoria Road, Ranchi, Jharkhand 834006, India. E-mail: debasis.bengal@gmail.com