For months now, more of us have been working at home than ever before.
But imagine if giving up your office, meant giving up your rights to a fair wage, sick pay and any guarantee of future work.
In India and Pakistan, ‘homeworkers’ – most of them very poor women – help make clothes, shoes, jewellery and homewares. Sewing on buttons, cutting threads, doing embroidery – chances are that homeworkers have helped create many of the things we're buying this Christmas.
But despite doing this vital work, they have no legal rights as workers. They are paid just a few pennies per item and never know how much – or little – work they will get.
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