Resources
Costing, Pricing and Wages
Homeworker Networks
Craft Sector Organizations
Ethical Membership Organizations
Labor and Human Rights
Costing, Pricing & Wages:
Fair Wage Guide – free, online software that assists artisans, buyers and piece-rate workers with costing, pricing and the calculation of fair wages.
The Artful Crafter Website – a website that contains valuable articles and resources on producing and selling crafts.
Pricing your Craft Worksheet – a helpful worksheet that can assist with pricing your craftwork.
Homeworker Networks:
Homeworkers Worldwide – a UK-based organization set up to support the movement of home based workers around the world.
Adithi, Patna, Bihar India (North India) - a nonprofit organization empowering disadvantaged women through awareness generation, leadership development and livelihood and income generating programs in several project areas in Bihar, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu.
Self Employed Women’s Association (India) – a trade union registered in 1972, SEWA is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labor or small businesses.
Working Women’s Forum - a women’s trade union based in Chennai, in South India. The WWF works with many home based workers such as bidi (cigarette) makers, agarbatti (incense) rollers and tailors and with women along the coast of Tamil Nadu affected by the tsunami disaster in 2005.
Women Working Worldwide – a UK based organization, which works with an international network of women workers’ organizations and women’s projects within trade unions, in particular to support the rights of women working in international production chains (supplying to the UK and other European countries with consumer goods such as food and clothing).
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)- a global research-policy network across a 100 countries that works to further the status of poor women employed in the informal sector.
Craft Sector Organizations:
Aid to Artisans (ATA) - an international nonprofit organization and a recognized leader of economic development for the craft industry, ATA links artisans to new markets and buyers to culturally meaningful and innovative products, provides needed economic opportunities to artisans and preserves the beauty of global handmade crafts.
CHF Craft Center- a nonprofit that contributes to economic development through field programs and coordination of an international network dedicated to supporting low-income artisans.
SERRV – a nonprofit that works with artisans and farmers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and other developing regions in the world to market their products and train them in becoming self sufficient.
Ten Thousand Villages – a fair trade organization that works with artisan groups across the developing world providing them opportunities to earn fair wages and improve their quality of life.
Ethical Membership Organizations:
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) – an alliance of companies, NGOs and trade unions promoting and improving the implementation of corporate codes of practice.
World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) – the authentic voice of fair trade representing fair traders from grassroots through to the G8. It is the only global network whose members represent the fair trade chain from production to sales.
Fair Trade Federation (FTF) – part of the global fair trade movement, the trade association strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully committed to fair trade.
Verite – an advocacy group protecting workers from dangers and abuses in workplaces and fostering good business practices around the world.
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) – a leader in corporate responsibility, BSR collaborates with a global network of companies in developing sustainable business strategies and solutions.
Social Accountability International (SAI) – works with companies, consumer groups, non-governmental organizations, workers, trade unions and local governments to promote human rights for workers around the world.
Labor and Human Rights:
(i) International Declaration of Human Rights
Paul Williams, Ed., 1981, “The International Bill of Human Rights”, Entwhistle
Buergenthal, Thomas; Shelton, Dinah; Stewart, David, 2002 International Human Rights in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series), West Publishing Company
Alston, Philip; Goodman, Ryan; Steiner Henry J., 2007, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals; Oxford University Press
Donnelly, Jack, 2006 International Human Rights (Dilemmas in World Politics), Westview Press
(ii) Modern Day Slavery
Roy, Chandra and Kaye, Mike, 2002, A Handbook for Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, ILO



