Working Hand in Hand with Home-Based Workers

home-based work included skilled artisan production and entrepreneurial activities as well as low-skilled manual work and survival activities. In recent decades, new forms of home-based work have emerged and today, home-based work encompasses a wide diversity. From traditional embroidery and weaving, home-based work today extends to some of the latest sectors such as computers and telework. Home-based workers may work in the new economy (assembling micro-electronics) or the old (weaving carpets), they can be in the rural areas as well in the urban. And they are not confined to the developing countries only, but are also found in developed countries (e.g. Ireland and the Netherlands).

Home-based worker refers to the general category of workers who carry out remunerative work within their homes or in the surrounding grounds. Within the general category of home-based workers, are two main types of workers: Piece-rate workers and Own-account workers.