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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Definition of Home-Based Workers
Statistical Definition This statistical definition of home-based workers was developed by the Independent Group on Home-Based Workers in...
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New international labour standard will help protect vulnerable workers from violence and harassment
When the 2019 International Labour Conference voted to adopt Convention 190 on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190),...
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Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination
Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces...
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Comprendre le terme statistique « non-salarié dépendant » : une interview avec Firoza Mehrotra
L’ajout d’une nouvelle catégorie « non-salarié dépendant » dans la Classification internationale des statuts d’emploi (CISE-18), en termes...
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