Home-Based Workers

Neither Seen Nor Heard: South Asia’s Millions of Home-based Workers

Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions and are essential to many industries, yet remain invisible and disregarded...

Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights

This 128-page publication published by the CCC International Secretariat includes feature articles on important themes relating to gender...

Wages and Bottlenecks: Home-Based Work and Factory System in Istanbul

Paper from the International Conference on Globalization and Its Discontents, SUNY Cortland, 2007

On Castles and Commerce: Zoning Law and the Home-Business Dilemma

Discusses how zoning laws can prevent or enable the development of home-based businesses in the United States.

Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra

From the paper’s introduction: “Home‐based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working...

Informal Labour in India and Indonesia: Surmounting organizing barriersLabour, Capital and Society

Abstract: A key aspect of facilitating a transformation to a more just and equitable society should be the facilitation of decent work, through...

Living Wage: Regulatory Pathways to Living Wages for Precarious and Informal Workers in Global Supply Chains

Living Wage: Regulatory Pathways to Living Wages for Precarious and Informal Workers in Global Supply Chains proposes strategies to improve...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Gender, Informality and Poverty

Waged Work at Home: The Social Organization of Industrial Outwork in Hong Kong