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A training manual designed to assist organizations or individuals to facilitate the building of independent home-based worker organizations. Home-based working is defined as paid employment in the home or in a building or yard near the home, for example traditional crafts, making clothes and shoes, or basic clerical work. Millions of women around the world take up this form of employment. However, there is rarely a regular supply of work, home-based workers do not usually have any rights such as the right to a minimum wage, social security or a pension. These workers are rarely counted in official statistics or recognized by trade unions. Drawing on experience in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, this practical manual outlines training in "mapping", a successful strategy for organizing and empowering home-based workers. It presents ideas, activities, and handouts around which a wide range of training sessions may be built.
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Who is this manual for?
- 1.2 What’s in this training manual?
- 1.3 How to use the manual
- 2 The Process of Training
- 2.1 Why are we training? How training relates to organising
- 2.2 What should the training cover?
- 2.3 Training methodologies
- 2.4 Some basic principles in training
- 3 Getting Started
- 3.1 Understanding the manual’s format
- 3.2 Materials
- 3.3 Useful activities for any session
- 4 Training the Mapping Team
- Introduction to the mapping programme
- Organising experiences of homebased workers around the world
- Horizontal mapping and the principles of action research
- 5 Training in Vertical Mapping
- Introduction to vertical mapping
- Vertical mapping for dependent homebased workers
- Vertical mapping for own-account homebased workers
- 6 Training Homebased Worker Leaders
- Good leadership skills
- Strategies for change
- Running an organisation
- 7 Training Homebased Worker Groups
- 7.1 Popular Education
- 7.2 REFLECT
- 7.3 Open circle discussion
- 8 Evaluation
- Activities for evaluation
- 9 Further resources for training
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