Homeworkers in global perspective : invisible no more

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Homeworkers in global perspective : invisible no more

edited by Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Prügl

Routledge, 1996

  • : hbk.
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [291]-312

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: 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.
Volume

: 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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  • NCID
    BA2725156X
  • ISBN
    • 0415910064
    • 0415910072
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 327 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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