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- ISBN: 9780415382755 | 0415382750
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/23/2007
Draws on surveys done in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
List of figures | p. xvii |
List of tables | p. xix |
Notes on contributors | p. xxv |
Preface | p. xxix |
Acknowledgements | p. xxxi |
A cross-country analysis of industrial outwork in Asia | p. 1 |
The empirical context and a theoretical framework | p. 3 |
Background: the informal economy and industrial outwork | p. 6 |
Homework - a driver of poverty, or a trigger of human development? | p. 13 |
The capabilities of homeworkers - a micro-level analysis of homeworker households | p. 21 |
Final remarks | p. 26 |
Notes | p. 27 |
Research methodology | p. 32 |
Research plan | p. 33 |
Research methodology: instruments and data collection | p. 34 |
Profile of selected sectors | p. 39 |
Questionnaire guidelines for homeworkers (and control group) | p. 44 |
Notes | p. 60 |
Subcontracting and homework in the value chain | p. 62 |
The value chain | p. 64 |
Forms of insecurity of homeworkers in the value chain in the five Asian countries | p. 67 |
Final remarks | p. 78 |
Notes | p. 80 |
Homeworkers | p. 82 |
The social and economic profile of the households | p. 83 |
Homeworkers a cross-country analysis | p. 92 |
Health and economic issues related to women homeworkers: some empirical evidence for India and Pakistan | p. 113 |
Concluding remarks | p. 118 |
Notes | p. 120 |
Child labour in homeworker households | p. 123 |
Homeworker households and child labour | p. 124 |
Understanding children's work in homeworker households | p. 127 |
The determinants of children's work status and hours worked: an empirical analysis for India, Pakistan and Indonesia | p. 154 |
Concluding remarks | p. 162 |
Definition of child activities | p. 164 |
Notes | p. 166 |
The Country Studies | p. 171 |
Subcontracted homework in India: a case study of three sectors | p. 173 |
The informal sector and informal employment in India | p. 175 |
Research method | p. 176 |
Subcontracted manufacturing | p. 179 |
Income and poverty in homework | p. 188 |
The homeworker | p. 191 |
Children in homework | p. 196 |
From research to action | p. 202 |
Notes | p. 208 |
References | p. 209 |
Hazardous subcontracted homework in Pakistan | p. 210 |
The informal sector in Pakistan | p. 210 |
Homework in Pakistan | p. 213 |
Research method | p. 214 |
Homework sectors | p. 218 |
Exploitation of homeworkers | p. 225 |
The impact of homework: a quantitative analysis | p. 229 |
Conclusions and policy recommendations | p. 236 |
Description of homework environments in fieldwork reports | p. 240 |
Case studies | p. 241 |
Notes | p. 243 |
Bibliography | p. 247 |
Women and children homeworkers in Indonesia | p. 250 |
Formal and informal in the Indonesian labour force | p. 251 |
Research method | p. 260 |
Sectors | p. 262 |
Homeworkers in the sectors studied | p. 270 |
Conclusions and policy recommendations | p. 279 |
Case studies: homeworkers' earnings | p. 282 |
Results from FGDs with children about the workplace | p. 283 |
Notes | p. 283 |
References | p. 287 |
Subcontracted homework by women and children in the Philippines | p. 290 |
The informal labour force and homeworkers | p. 291 |
Research method | p. 296 |
Homework sectors | p. 297 |
Profile of homeworkers | p. 304 |
Conclusions and recommendations | p. 310 |
Case studies | p. 315 |
Notes | p. 317 |
Bibliography | p. 319 |
Subcontracted homework in Thailand | p. 322 |
Thailand's industrialisation process and the informal sector | p. 323 |
The emergence of Home Based Work in Thailand - some features | p. 324 |
Research method | p. 329 |
Homework sectors | p. 332 |
The socio-economic situation of homeworkers | p. 340 |
Initiatives in favour of homeworkers | p. 349 |
Conclusions and policy recommendations | p. 350 |
Case studies | p. 351 |
Notes | p. 354 |
References | p. 357 |
Policy implications | p. 359 |
Upgrading informal micro-and small enterprises through clusters: towards a policy agenda | p. 361 |
Background | p. 361 |
Informal activities, clusters and local systems of development | p. 365 |
Clustering as a process of development: dirt roads, low roads and high roads | p. 368 |
Empirical evidence on the potential of clusters | p. 372 |
Policies to promote clusters of small enterprises and homeworkers' activities | p. 381 |
Concluding remarks | p. 393 |
International agencies' efforts at promoting clusters | p. 394 |
Notes | p. 397 |
Extending social insurance to informal wage workers | p. 400 |
Understanding the historical evolution of social protection in rich countries and its relevance for Asian countries | p. 402 |
Government and non-governmental initiatives for homeworkers in South and South East Asia | p. 408 |
Implications of this study for social protection policy | p. 413 |
Concluding remarks | p. 427 |
ILO Convention on Home Work No. 177, Ratification of Relevant Conventions and Conventions | p. 428 |
Ratification of ILO Conventions | p. 438 |
Organisations for/of homeworkers | p. 443 |
Main international voluntary certifications, corporate social responsibility (SA 8000) and the Global Compact initiative | p. 445 |
Notes | p. 450 |
References | p. 453 |
Index | p. 469 |
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