Home-Based Workers

Glass Ceilings and Concrete Floors: Measuring Progress in Women’s Employment

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fourth UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. To mark this historic anniversary,...

The Fair Trade Movement for Informal Workers

A Q&A with Elaine Jones during World Fair Trade Week

Seis mitos sobre las estadísticas de la economía informal

Los mitos abundan en el campo de las estadísticas de la economía informal y van desde nociones de “no hay estadística alguna”, hasta  “las...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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...