Home-Based Workers

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

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Social Protection for Informal Workers in the Garment Industry: Philippines and Thailand

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...

Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review

The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility...

Approach Paper: Vulnerabilities of Women Homebased Workers

Home-based Garment Workers: The Impact of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

There is arguably no greater gap in economic wealth and bargaining power than between the home-based garment worker and the owner of the...

Inclusive Cities Project Helping Urban Workers Make Gains

The Inclusive Cities project is improving the lives of the urban working poor.

City Strategies and Urban Planning from Different Perspectives – An Urban Planner, Homeworkers, Waste Pickers and Migrant Workers

Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor