Who are Home-Based Workers and Homeworkers?
Home-based workers are those who do paid work within their homes or the surrounding grounds. They produce goods for local or global value chains and are of two basic categories.
- Self-employed home-based workers: -Assume all the risks of being independent operators.
- Sub-contracted home-based workers (called homeworkers): - Are contracted by individual entrepreneurs or firms, often through an intermediary.
In both categories, these workers deal with low incomes, irregular and/or cancelled work orders, unreliable supply of raw materials, delayed payment, and rejected goods.