In this
article we document and discuss homeworker ‘mapping’ as an emerging
approach to organizing. Mapping was used by homeworker organizations to
organize unprotected workers in the unregulated informal sector where there has
been an exponential growth over the last two decades (Beneria, 2001; Beynon et
al., 2002; HWW, 2002; ILO, 2002b: 13). Within this sector, homeworkers are
one of the largest groups with Homenet (2001) estimating that there are 300
million homeworkers world wide. They are also among the most marginalized
of workers (HomeNet, 2001).