Home-Based Workers

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

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Every Pair Tells a Story: Report on a Survey of Homeworking and Subcontracting Chains in Six Countries of the European Union

The six countries included in the report are Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands.

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,...

Progrès des Femmes à Travers le Monde 2005, Le: Les Femmes le Travail et la Pauvreté

Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici   Plus d’informations est disponible sur le site de...

Where Am I Wearing?

Introduction

This chapter is the introduction to the book that, as described on amazon.com, “studies the impact of subcontracted work in different...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents estimates of home-based workers in Bangladesh based on two rounds of labour force surveys (nationally representative...

Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain

The report on Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain aims to contribute to the global debate and...

Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia

Background paper presented at Regional Policy Seminar on Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Policy...