Home-Based Workers

Boletim WIEGO das Organizações de Base agosto 2013

Um Boletim WIEGO para as Organizações de Base de Trabalhadores Informais, agosto 2013 

Case Study: Mrs Malee Thamdee (anchovy gutting and cleaning)

Sector Summary: Home-Based Workers

This summary examines characteristics of home-based work including: definitions and statistics; contributions and economic value; driving...

Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO août 2014

Une newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), août 2014

Home-Based Workers in India: Need for Protection under Law

In India, issues and rights of home-based workers have remained largely unaddressed in policies and programmes. Most of the labour laws are...

CIT 2016: Los y las trabajadores a domicilio subcontratados presentan sus demandas

Tatiana Rojas Orellana, tesorera de CONTEXTIL (Confederación Nacional de Federaciones y Sindicatos de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras Textiles...

Technology and the Future of Work: Experiences of informal waste workers and street vendors in Dhaka, Lima, and Nairobi

“Through  a  year-long  project  supported  by  the  Rockefeller  Foundation, Practical  Action  and  WIEGO  (Women  in  Informal ...

C184 Home Work Recommendation, 1996

This Recommendation provides a definition of home work. It encourages member states to formulate policy and laws to regulate home work. The...

Home-Based Workers Regional Meeting, Latin America

A compilation of laws and policies protecting home-based workers (wage-employed and self-employed), the document was prepared over five years...

Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) website

SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers in India. These are women who earn a...