Herausgeber_in: WIEGO
Autor_in: Martha Alter Chen
Schlagwörter: Asien, Heimarbeit, informelle Arbeitsformen, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie
Kurzbeschreibung:
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes:
- stitching garments and weaving textiles
- producing craft products
- processing and preparing food items
- assembling or packaging electronics, automobile parts, and pharmaceutical products
- selling goods or providing services (laundry, hair-cutting, beautician services)
- or doing clerical or professional work
- among other activities.
Although they remain largely invisible, home-based workers are engaged in many branches of industry and represent a significant share of urban employment in some countries, particularly for women and especially in Asia.
Home-based workers are one of three urban informal occupational groups – together with street vendors and waste pickers – who are the focus of a 10-city study. The Informal Economy Monitoring Study aims to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect conditions of home-based work, street vending and waste picking; the responses of informal workers to these driving forces; and the institutions which help or hinder their responses.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Umfang: 84 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
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