Homeworkers in global perspective : invisible no more
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Homeworkers in global perspective : invisible no more
Routledge, 1996
- : hbk.
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [291]-312
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk. ISBN 9780415910064
Description
This study illustrates the diversity of home-based work and homeworker organizing. Home-based labour embraces a variety of work arrangements including the seamstress on piece rates, the producer in a crafts co-operative, and the weaver in a family business. The text incorporates case studies to further the discussion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415910071
Description
Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based work and homeworker organizing.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, PART ONE: Overview, 1. Introduction, 2. Sexual Divisions, Gender Constructions, 3. Home-Based Producers in Development Discourse, PART TWO: The Homework Experience, 4. Space, Gender, and Work, 5. Within the Walls, 6. Good Housewives, 7. Bibi Khanum, 8. Home-Based Work as a Rural Survival Strategy, 9. Finland Is Another World, Illustrations, PART THREE: Divergent Responses, 10. Making Cadillacs and Buicks for General Motors, 11. Biases in Labor Law, 12. Feminization Through Flexible Labor, 13. Organizing Homeworkers into Unions, 14. Women's Empowerment in the Making, 15. Making Links, Bibliography, Index, Contributors
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