All posts in Home-Based Workers
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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News
Global Advocacy and Negotiations November 09, 2021Open 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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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