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Article

10 May 2004

Author:
Oxfam GB, National Group on Homeworking, TUC

British homeworkers in global supply chains

...it is also the story of many British workers supplying those same supermarkets and retailers: women workers who are paid, on average, £2.53 per hour...who receive no sick, holiday, or maternity pay, who are made redundant without notice or compensation, who are not subject to adequate health and safety checks...workers whom the government does not protect from unscrupulous employers. It is the story of one million homeworkers in the UK.