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This Convention applies te women employed in industrial undertakings and in non-industrial and agricultural occupations, including women wage earners working at home.
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For the purpose of this Convention, the term “industrial undertaking” comprises public and private undertakings and any branch thereof and includes particularly
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(a)
mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;
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(b)
undertakings in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, orin which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding, or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind;
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(c)
undertakings engaged in building and civil engineering work, including constructional, repair, maintenance, alteration and demolition work;
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(d)
undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road, rail, sea, inland waterway or air, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses or airports.
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For the purpose of this Convention, the term “non-industrial occupations” includes all occupations which are carried on in or in connection with the following undertakings or services, whether public or private:
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(a)
commercial establishments;
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(b)
postal and telecommunication services;
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(c)
establishments and administrative services in which the persons employed are mainly engaged in clerical work;
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(d)
newspaper undertakings;
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(e)
hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, clubs, cafés and other refreshment houses;
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(f)
establishments for the treatment and care of the sick, infirm or destitute and of orphans;
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(g)
theatres and places of public entertainment;
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(h)
domestic work for wages in private households;
and any other non-industrial occupations to which the competent authority may decide to apply the provisions of the Convention.
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For the purpose of this Convention, the term “agricultural occupations” includes all occupations carried on in agricultural undertakings, including plantations and large-scale industrialised agricultural undertakings.