Conversations with home-based female workers in the city of Ahmedabad have revealed that abnormal weather patterns (caused due to climate change) are negatively impacting their working conditions and quality of life.
According to ILO, home-based workers include all workers who carry out remunerative work within their homes or in an adjacent location that is not the workplace of the employer.
Most home-based workers are classified as urban working poor and reside in informal overcrowded settlements having poor infrastructure. Their homes, which double as their workplaces, are often small and cramped.
Many workers report that the intense heat inside the house during the height of summer makes it very uncomfortable to carry on work. Additionally, very often they are unable to turn on the fan because they frequently operate with light materials.
Similar to this, during prolonged monsoons and severe rains, the paper they use for their work becomes damp from the humidity, and the moisture escapes from the floor making it difficult to work sitting down. Furthermore, raw material storage is made challenging by roof leaks.
Insofar as it alters temperature and precipitation patterns, climate change may make entire regions unproductive, which would cause migration due to the effects of the shift, the growth of precarious and informal labor, and an increase in unemployment.
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