This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana. As labour statistics on home-based work and homework are absent, the research draws on interviews with 124 individuals working in agro-processing, arts and crafts, industry...

This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via...

Negotiations are a valuable and important tool for increasing the voice of workers in the informal economy. This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy. These practices demonstrate that...

Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South -- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South -- Chapter 2: The Concept of ‘Working People’ -- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour -- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying...