La présente note d’information porte sur six groupes professionnels des travailleur·euse·s del’informel qui, en 2019, constituaient plus de trois quarts de l’emploi total au Sénégal, où 84 % del’emploi est informel.
This brief focuses on six groups of informal workers who comprised over three-quarters of total employment in 2019 in Senegal, where 84 per cent of employment is informal.
In this episode of the Clean Clothes Podcast Janhavi Dave, HomeNet International, Zehra Khan, Home Based Women Workers Federation, Poonsap Tulaphan, HomeNet Thailand & Foundation for Labour and Employment Promotion share how home-based workers – mostly working in the garment sector – have organised over several decades, and their main wins.
This study reveals the differentiated pathways of impact COVID-19 has had on the informal workforce, and thus recovery for different groups of informal workers approximately a year and a half into the pandemic. The study shows that the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis remains deep and persistent for workers at the base of the economy.
This paper examines the degree – and pathways – of impact on different sectors of informal workers and, within sectors, by key variables (status in employment, place of work, goods/services provided, and gender). The study provides insights from informal workers in their own words and concludes with common demands for recovery by local organizations of informal workers.
This organizing brief draws out the lessons of HBWs organizing in five African countries. It highlights different levels of power relationships that impact HBWs’ autonomy to (self-)organize in order to improve their lives and their livelihoods.
Contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work.
Mapping of the past, current and future work of the regional HomeNets to address challenges relating to homes doubling up as workplaces
The second round of investigation into how women home-based workers (HBWs) in South Asia are affected by the continuing crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
