Home-based work platforms that pay properly: sewing, bookkeeping, transcription, design

A first step

Find five women at home with a skill, whether sewing, bookkeeping, typing or design, and one local business that needs that work done. Broker a first paid job between them at a fair rate, with the terms written down and payment on delivery. The proof is a completed job, paid in full, and a business that asks for a second one.

Who pays first

A small business owner who needs bookkeeping or sewing done without hiring full time, and pays a fair rate for reliable work delivered on time.

What leaves today

Skilled women at home either earn nothing or sell their hours cheaply through middlemen; a platform that pays properly turns that skill into income on the island.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  32% of adult women in work, against 70% of men

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• 441Women's craft co-operatives with a single brand and a single buyer abroad
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