Vocational education and home-based work: socioeconomic issues of self-employed home-based workers in Pakistan
Home-based work is considered a gendered phenomenon as an overwhelming majority of home-based workers comprises women. Despite the fact that millions of women in Pakistan are engaged in home-based work, they are not recognized as workers in national labor laws and are deprived of social protection and other facilities available to workers in formal economy. This research examines socioeconomic problems faced by the women workers, the ways they negotiate those problems, and how vocational education affects their lived experiences. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with home-based women workers i... Show more
Authors: Yousaf, Farhan Navid; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Ahmad, Akhlaq
Published: [Islamabad, Pakistan], [International Islamic University], 2018
Resource type: Article
Access item: http://irigs.iiu.edu.pk:64447/ojs/index.php/IJITL/article/view/489
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