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Informal employment
& Homeworkers
Millions of workers, most
of them women, carry out different forms
of paid employment in their homes. But because
they work behind closed doors, their work
is invisible and rarely recognised. Since
the 1970's there have been organisations
working with homebased workers to make them
visible; fight for recognition of their
rights and for improvement of their living
and working conditions.
Please find below what the CCC and organisations
in our network have organised and published
around this theme.
Sept 2004,
The Global Garment Industry
and the Informal Economy :
Critical Issues for Labor
Rights
Advocates
This paper has been written as an input
for the seminar “Campaigning strategies
on informal labour in the global garment
industry,” organized by the Clean Clothes
Campaign (CCC), the International Restructuring
Education Network Europe (IRENE), and the
Evangelische Akademie Meissen, to be held
at the Akademie September 23rd, 24th, and
25th, 2004.
243kb) this
document in Russian
Dec 2004, Campaigning
strategies on informal labour in the global
garment industry
IRENE/CCC Seminar Report
Meissen meeting brings together garment
industry labor rights activists and informal
economy experts
By Nina Ascoly
424kb) Download
the report
316kb) this
document in Russian
 Garment
Industry subcontracting and Workers Rights
Report of Women Working Worldwide
Action research in Asia and Europe 2003
1.807kb)
Aug 2003, Nike
signs agreement with Australian Union
Please find here the text of a joint press
release put out by Nike and the Textile,
Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
(TCFUA), regarding an ethical clothing deed
for Nike's production in Australia that
was signed last week.
June 2003, Research
published on informal sector workers in Sri
Lanka.
Feb 2003, Research
underway
Women Working Worldwide project: The reality
of subcontracting
Jan 2003, An east/south
encounter to discuss trade union organising
in the informal economy
This report captures the contributions of
participants at an IRENE workshop held in
Soesterberg, the Netherlands, on 11-12 January
2003. The workshop was organised in co-operation
with the FNV trade union federation of the
Netherlands and the international network
Women in Informal Employment Globalising and
Organizing (WIEGO)
Aug 2002, Manual
for Research on Homeworkers
July 2002 - StreetNet press statement:
International labour
conference adopts new conclusions on the informal
economy
April 2002,
“Decent” working conditions for
informal economy workers IRENE / WIEGO
121 kb)
March 2002, "Decent
Work in the Informal Sector
Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth
of Independent States and the Baltic States
region" by Bettina Musiolek
Nov 2001, STRUGGLING
TO BE HEARD
Asian women in informal workCommittee for
Asian Women Bangkok
Report
Nov 2001, `Our
voices... will be heard’
Report of The Regional Workshop On Women Workers
In Informal Work
Organizing, Lobbying and Advocacy
- Organized by: Committee for Asian Women
(CAW) and HomeNet, Thailand
239 kb)
July 2000, Fair Wear (Australia) offers Nike
pens to sign the Homeworkers Code of Practice
with, as the torch passes by the major
Olympic sponsor's concept store.
July 2000, Fair Wear campaign (australia)
to get
Nike to sign the Homeworkers Code of Practice
June 2000, Canada: Homeworkers'
Class Action Lawsuit
Jan 2000, Child labour
in Australian garment industry, Culture
of Fear and Silence in the Rag Trade
1998, Video Australia, 26 minutes Twenty
Pieces: Outworkers Tell the Real Fashion Story
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ILO background documents 'informal economy