This article emerges out of my long association with homebased
working women (HBWW) of Karachi. The paper aims at bringing
together researches done to comprehend the nature and outcome of
women’s work and to assess the impact of work on women. The paper’s
major focus is to seek an insight of home-based work –an invisible work’
through the narratives of women who, similar to their work, also remain
invisible. Through women’s life-stories narrated to me, this paper
unfolds a fresh conceptualization of women’s home-based work as an
instrument of exploitation and not of emancipation.