Home-Based Workers

Home-Based Workers and Urban Plans, Policies and Practice: India in Comparative Perspective

This paper explores the impact of local government policies and urban plans on home-based workers in India and elsewhere. It presents recent...

Homeworkers Organizing for Economic Empowerment

From 2019-2022, the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic Empowerment Project will help homeworkers who belong to membership-based worker...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks

This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...

Ratifications of the Home Work Convention (C177)

It’s has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO’s Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have...

The Tobacco Industry and Women’s Employment: Old Concerns and New Imperatives

Report of the Independent Group on Home-Based Workers

A large section of the national workforce is predominantly home-based workers who tend to remain invisible, both physically as they are working...

Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence

CPRC Working Paper 97

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Bangkok, Thailand

In Bangkok, WIEGO partnered with HomeNet Thailand to carry out this study. This report outlines key findings and policy recommendations for...

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Ahmedabad’s Home-Based Workers: Realities & Recommendations