African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their livelihoods.
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 with other women home-based workers to challenge the status quo.
It’s hard to miss the shocking images of heaping plastic floating in the middle of the world’s oceans on the covers of magazines and on the evening news. The photos and reports have raised alarm bells with both citizens and policymakers alike. The ocean plastic waste issue is one of the most significant crises of our times — and one we believe waste pickers can play a significant role in solving.
As cities across the globe struggle to find efficient, cost-effective ways to manage waste, the women waste pickers of Pune, India, have launched a pioneering way forward.
La inclusión de la nueva categoría “contratista dependiente” en la clasificación de la situación en la ocupación dentro de las estadísticas del trabajo debería aportar mejores datos, y por ende conducir a mejores políticas nacionales que beneficien a las personas trabajadoras a domicilio subcontratadas que no llegan a ser ni autónomas independientes ni asalariadas dependientes. Firoza Mehrotra, asesora de estrategia de HomeNet Sur de Asia, nos explica la importancia de la nueva categoría.
The addition of a new category “dependent contractor” in the status in employment classification of labour statistics should lead to better data and thus better national policies to benefit homeworkers: that is, sub-contracted home-based workers who are neither fully independent self-employed nor fully dependent wage workers. Firoza Mehrotra, strategy advisor to HomeNet South Asia, discusses the importance of the new category.
