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Home Based Workers in the Supply Chain

Home Based Workers in the Supply Chain. Ratna M. Sudarshan ISST March 28, 2009, SEWA Roundtable. Bottom end of value chain: invisibility. Mithai Shop. Mithai Shop. Mithai Shop. Box making at Lucknow. Raw materials Card boards/paper. Contractor + Machineries + Family labour.

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Home Based Workers in the Supply Chain

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  1. Home Based Workers in the Supply Chain Ratna M. Sudarshan ISST March 28, 2009, SEWA Roundtable Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi

  2. Bottom end of value chain: invisibility Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi

  3. Mithai Shop Mithai Shop Mithai Shop Box making at Lucknow Raw materials Card boards/paper Contractor + Machineries + Family labour Printing Of linds Home Based labour Factory based Labour (on piece rate basis) Home based Labour (Piece rate) Home Based Family Labour

  4. BIDI SECTOR Raw materials supply From neighbouring states Bidi Factory Owner Rolled Bidis Contractor Factory Roasting in oven Labelling packing Sub - contractor HBW for rolling Distributor Rolled Bidis Export Domestic

  5. Table 1: Percentage Share of Non Agricultural Workers Working in Own Dwellings[1]1999-2000 to 2004-05(Source: Report of the Independent Group on Home-based Worker - Appendix Table 3, NSS report No 519 Part I, 61st Round, NSS Report 460, Chapter 4, Table 10,55th Round)

  6. Table 5: Wages Compared with Daily Minimum Wages of Home-based Workers 5 6 4 Earnings = (Average Earnings in Peak Period) (Number of Months reported as Peak Period) + (Average Earnings in Lean Period) (Number of Months reported as Lean Period) (Total Months Working ) ( State specified wage) (26), assuming 26 working days in a month. (Total Months Working ) (125) (26), assuming 26 working days in a month and using the National Centre for Labour living wage of Rs 125 per day Source: ISST-HNI 2007 5 6

  7. Table 8: Daily Hours of Work (In Hours) Source: ISST-HNI 2006

  8. Table 9: Part of the day in which this work is done – Zari Zardosi Source: ISST-HNI 2007

  9. HBW: livelihood issues • Incomes influenced by regularity of contracts; piece rates payments; timeliness of payment; cost of raw materials purchased by HBW/ thread, transport; storage concerns • Significance in family income • Access to skill upgradation, marketing, mobility along value chain • Other work opportunities Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi

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