Occupational Group: Home-Based Workers

Garment Workers Worldwide: Promoting A Global Dialogue

A report from a North American regional workshop on home-based workers, co-organized by WIEGO.

Confeccionadores de ropa en todo el mundo: impulsando un diálogo global

A report from a North American regional workshop on home-based workers, co-organized by WIEGO. En Espanol

WIEGO MBO Newsletter

Our MBO (Membership-based Organization) Newsletter series has been revived, with a new format featuring shorter and more focused stories. ...

Urban informal workers and the green economy

Workers in the informal economy are playing an important role in climate change mitigation. Further, they usually leave a smaller carbon...

Delhi Declaration of Home-based Workers

Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...

Rethinking Formalization

The WIEGO Perspective Formalization of the informal economy can take different forms: registration, taxation, organization and representation,...

Home-Based Workers

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration...

Informal Workers and the Law

WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....

C177: The Homework Convention – It’s Time for Action!

A homeworker in Thailand prepares an order. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ReportageOn 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored...