Asian Informal Workers: Global Risks Local Protection

by Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Biggeri, Mario

• ISBN13: 9780203966532
• ISBN10: 0203966538
• Copyright: 2007-02-08
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This is a thoroughly researched volume, edited by key specialists in the field, along with an impressive team of contributors, that surveys the nature and extent of informal home work in Asia; examining and arguing for protection of the workers who are exploited.

Table of Contents

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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