ABSTRACT
At a May 1990 Conference in the Netherlands, People Working With homeworkers from a number of different countries met and discussed their experiences. Ela Bhatt spoke about the Self Employed Women’s Association, in Ahmedabad, India, an independent women’s trade union of which she is general secretary. Lucita Lazo, the coordinator of a program in Southeast Asia, explained ongoing research and action on behalf of homeworkers in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. Other speakers from the South worked with Palestinian women in refugee camps and outworkers in Hong Kong. Homeworkers and project workers from Britain and the Netherlands talked about their work, and speakers from France, Germany, and Belgium described policies on homeworking in their countries. Other participants were researchers or represented international organizations. One key recommendation of the conference was that international and regional networks should be established as a way in which those active with homeworkers in different countries and continents could maintain contact and communicate with each other as well as act jointly at the international level. 1
