Home-Based Workers

How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust

Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure...

Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market

This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...

Report on the Working and Living Conditions of Workers in Beedi Industry in India

Labor Market Informalization and Social Policy: Distributional Links and the Case of Homebased Workers

Vassar College Economics Working Paper, No. 60

Work and Economic Security in the 21st Century: What Can We Learn From Ela Bhatt?

This paper is the result of research on SEWA including an interview with Ela Bhatt, conducted by Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus at the...

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

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

CPRC Working Paper 97

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...

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