This book investigates various dimensions of exploitation of sub-contracted home-based workers engaged in hazardous work. It explores the exploitation of children, particularly girls, and women in the chain. There is a particular focus on the negative health impacts of such work and on public...

This article attempts to contribute to the literature by carefully documenting home-based work in four sectors in Pakistan in a value chain context. We attempt to isolate and compare the unit remuneration of workers relative to unit value added at the lowest tier of the chain as a measure of...

We argue that Pakistan is unlikely to change its human development ranking and bring it closer to its ranking in per-capita GDP until it copes with it's low achievement in basic schooling. This paper draws on the experience of private sector and NGO schools to identify lessons for the government...

This paper has three objectives. First, to contribute to the literature by carefully documenting home based work in four sectors in Pakistan in a value chain context. Second, to demonstrate the extent to which home-based workers are deprived of the value they create by tracking the distribution...

Saba Gul Khattak discusses the constant disruptions in the uniform meanings of home for Afghan women refugees due to the direct impact of war upon their lives. Based on a series of in-depth interviews she looks at the different ideas that are contained within and underlie the concept of home for...

Saba Khattak looks at the impact of the Pakistan nuclear industry on women. She argues that the nuclear programme has a specific impact on women as the poorest and less powerful in their society. Development (1999) 42, 71–73. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110040