Spinning wool Romania

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Spinning woolRomania
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Making Jute India
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Spinning WoolNepal
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Weaving Turkey
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Silk Embroidery, China
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Sewing underwear Brazil
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Soldering circuit boards, UK
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Making flip-flops, Indonesia
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1- stitching uppers, Bulgaria 2- making sandals,
India 3 preparing soles, Chile
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Key Issues

• Visibility
• Homework as a legitimate livelihood
• Rights as workers

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Organising in Tamil Nadu, India
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Using mapping tools, Bulgaria
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Key Demands

• Recognition as workers and for their rights
• social insurance,
• living wage,
• regular work
• health and safety protection.

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Homeworkers Worldwide resources

We Work At Home Training Manual Comprehensive
training manual, drawing on experience of
mapping work in Asia, Latin America and
Eastern Europe. Mapping pack Basic guidelines
for action research with homebased
workers. Vertical mapping pack Specific
information on tracing production and marketing
chains. We Work At Home Booklet outlining the
results of two years of the mapping programme. Pho
to Pack Set of A4 colour photos of homebased
workers and their organisations from different
countries. Homeworkers WorldwideOffice 20,
30-38 Dock Street, Leeds LS10 1JFwww.homeworkersw
w.org.ukinfo_at_homeworkersww.org.uk0113 217 4037