Home-Based Workers

Understanding the Statistical Term “Dependent Contractor”: A Q&A with Firoza Mehrotra

The addition of a new category “dependent contractor” in the status in employment classification of labour statistics should lead to better...

Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination

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...

WIEGO MBO Newsletter

Our MBO (Membership-based Organization) Newsletter series has been revived, with a new format featuring shorter and more focused stories. ...

Urban informal workers and the green economy

Workers in the informal economy are playing an important role in climate change mitigation. Further, they usually leave a smaller carbon...

Delhi Declaration of Home-based Workers

Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...

Rethinking Formalization

The WIEGO Perspective Formalization of the informal economy can take different forms: registration, taxation, organization and representation,...

Home-Based Workers

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration...

Informal Workers and the Law

WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....

C177: The Homework Convention – It’s Time for Action!

A homeworker in Thailand prepares an order. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ReportageOn 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored...