Skip To Content

Home-Based Workers

All posts in Home-Based Workers

  • Workstation of a home-based worker in Ahmedabad, India Worker Story

    Reshmaben Bashirkhan Pathan, a home-based worker organizer in Ahmedabad, India

    Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part B

    This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Home as Workplace: A spatial reading of workhomes – Part A

    This study looks at all the ways in which home aids work — spatially and infrastructurally — and illustrates the role of various factors...

    Read More
  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Pleven, Bulgaria: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    Pleven, Bulgaria, has a large informal worker population due in part to its large garment manufacturing sector. This report presents the...

    Read More
  • Woman sawing from home (Tailoring) during COVIS-19 pandemic Policy/Position Documents

    Position Paper on Inequalities and the World of Work, prepared for the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference

    Despite a pre-pandemic modest decrease in the number of people living in extreme poverty, the number of extremely poor increased by about...

    Read More
  • News

    Open Letter to European Union Policymakers

    As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...

    Read More
  • Advocacy Materials

    Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2

    Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Case Study (2)

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Case Study (1)

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Emergency relief in crisis and disaster situations; COVID-19 relief

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

    Read More