The Place of Home-based Enterprises in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Cochabamba, New Delhi, Surabaya and Pretoria
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Home based enterprises (HBEs) are an accepted component in the informal sector in rapidly developing cities. However, they have generally received quite a bad press, especially through a concentration on the exploitation evident in piece-rate homework. From our work in low-income neighbourhoods in 1 The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following in the data collection and analysis for the main study from which this work arises: Justine Coulson, Peter Kellett, Nina Laurie, Maggie Anderson in Cochabamba, Alpana Bose in New Delhi, and teams at CSIR, Pretoria and ITS Surabaya. Katherine Gough, Peter Kellett, Mike Majale and two anonymous referees reviewed drafts of the paper and made very helpful comments.
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