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...
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Rethinking Formalization
The WIEGO Perspective Formalization of the informal economy can take different forms: registration, taxation, organization and representation,...
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Home-Based Workers
Women’s Economic Empowerment – Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration...
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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....
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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...
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Home-Based Workers Organizing
Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers’ rights, changing...
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Habitat III
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Sewing a Better Future: Sarita, Home-Based Worker, Nepal
For 11 years, Sarita Adhikary has been working with the Women Skill Development Organization in Nepal. She still vividly remembers her first...
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Garment Workers
The growing global garment industry exemplifies the challenges of global manufacturing: low wages, “flexible” (or no) contracts...
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Home-Based Workers and the Law
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from in or around their own homes. Although largely invisible, they are engaged...
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