Risk and Vulnerabilities of Homebased Workers in South Asia: Regional Report – South Asia (original) (raw)

Abstract

Home-based work constitutes a large segment of informal economy in South Asia. A highly significant number of home-based workers are women. Several studies have found that home-based workers are primarily live in the low-income urban localities. They are highly exploited, almost invisible as worker and operate on the margins with almost no bargaining voice either as workers or as a group. Sadly, the value of their work is ignored and overlooked both in and outside the domestic periphery. In addition to that the instability and invisibility of their work make their lives in such a vulnerable situation that they sometime lose the ability to recognize the critical issues related to their work and lives. The home-based workers are deprived of taking any advantage from the social security schemes run by the government for the workers, and at the same time they are totally unaware about the social security measures taken by the government for the poor and marginalized citizens. The present study tries to unpack the different dimensions of the risk and vulnerabilities of the home based in five south Asian countries and also makes a modest attempt to find the possible explanations behind the indifference attitude of the home-based workers to know their entitlements for accessing whatever social security schemes that run in their respective countries.

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