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Briefly summarizes the conference, "Making Connections, Workers and Their Communities," held at York University on May 26-28, 1989. Mary DeVan related her doctoral research on Filipino domestic workers in Vancouver, Margaret Oldfield and Belinda Leach adddressed low-paid clerical and garment workers (including the methodological challenges of researching the latter) whose workplace is the home, and Sedef Arat-Koç commented on a recently published paper [entitled "In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as a Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere of Canada"] on the political economy of the relationship of the state to domestic service. Concludes that a holistic approach to women's work including a new commitment to labour-community organization is necessary to uncover the reality of women's invisible household labour.