Home-Based Workers

Boletim WIEGO das Organizações de Base agosto 2013

Um Boletim WIEGO para as Organizações de Base de Trabalhadores Informais, agosto 2013 

Case Study: Mrs Malee Thamdee (anchovy gutting and cleaning)

Sector Summary: Home-Based Workers

This summary examines characteristics of home-based work including: definitions and statistics; contributions and economic value; driving...

Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO août 2014

Une newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), août 2014

Home-Based Workers in India: Need for Protection under Law

In India, issues and rights of home-based workers have remained largely unaddressed in policies and programmes. Most of the labour laws are...

Commemorating Twenty years of the ILO Home Work Convention 177 (1996-2016)

The ILO Convention 177 on Homework (C177) was adopted at the International Labour Conference (ILC) on 20 June 1996. Organized homeworkers...

Campaigns at Work: A guide to campaigning for homeworker organizations, unions, campaign groups and activists

This guide was published by HomeWorkers Worldwide. The aim of this manual is to provide guidelines, ideas and processes to assist you to...

Labor Conditions and Rights of Men and Women Workers in Informal Employment

Labor Conditions and Rights of Men and Women Workers in Informal Employment (Peru)

Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) website

SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers in India. These are women who earn a...

WIEGO MBO Newsletter April 2012