Home-Based Workers

Homework in Germany and Spain: Industrial Restructuring and the Meaning of Homework for WomenGeoJournal

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Social Protection for Home-Based Women Workers in South Asia: Learning from Action and Research

This action research project has been carried out by Home Net South Asia with research inputs from the Institute of Social Studies Trust. ...

We Need to Start Respecting Informal Workers

In the midst of rapid urbanization, the question of whether and how to formalize the informal economy is a growing concern.

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Trabalhadores Domiciliares em Lahore, Paquistão

City Report (English)

Résumé des conclusions principals – La coopération entre les travailleurs de l’économie informelle: Travailleurs à domicile et récupérateurs de matériaux

Home Based Work in India: A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?

Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, September 17-18...

Neither Seen Nor Heard: South Asia’s Millions of Home-based Workers

Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions and are essential to many industries, yet remain invisible and disregarded...

The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India

Abstract: This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with...

Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra

From the paper’s introduction: “Home‐based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working...