Home-Based Workers

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...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Gender, Informality and Poverty

Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...

Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South AsiaWorld Development

Homework can be seen as the source of exploitation of workers, but under some conditions, it can foster human development and the emergence...

In Demand in a Globalised World: Women Home Based WorkersSamyukta: a Journal of Women’s Studies

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

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