Technical Note
HOMEBASED WORK AND ITS POLICY LANDSCAPE
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LENGTH :9
LUMS No :17-018-2019-2
PUBLICATION YEAR : 2019
ABSTRACT:
The significance of the informal economy’s contribution to global supply chains and the role it plays in employing the poor across the Global South has received a lot of recent attention by activists, policymakers, and global institutions. This note is designed to introduce the reader to one form of informal work, that is, home-based work, which is done primarily by women within the confines of their homes. Home-based women workers have been the subject of much activism and policy attention at the global and local level, and this note details this history, as well as the different types of coalition-building that has been practiced in Pakistan to organise home-based workers. The note is based on both primary and secondary sources. The basic motivation for writing this note is to detail how a vulnerable worker group’s labour rights became a policy issue in Pakistan through the intervention of global and local policy entrepreneurs. At the same time, the policies drafted in the process have not been implemented so far because the constituency lacks political power, and the organising process is fractured due to resource and legitimacy tussles between network actors. This note aims to fill a critical gap in the local policy analysis literature since the textbooks instructors are forced to use are primarily set in the US context.