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9780415910064

Homeworkers in Global Perspective

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415910064

  • ISBN10:

    0415910064

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-01-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Homeworkers in Global Perspectivedocuments 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
ix(2)
Acknowledgments xi
PART ONE Overview 3(60)
1 Introduction
3(16)
Elisabeth Prugl
Eileen Boris
2 Sexual Divisions, Gender Constructions The Historical Meaning of Homework in Western Europe and the United States
19(20)
Eileen Boris
3 Home-Based Producers in Development Discourse
39(24)
Elisabeth Prugl
PART TWO The Homework Experience Housewives, Mothers, and Workers 63(116)
4 Space, Gender, and Work Home-Based Workers in Mexico
63(18)
Faranak Miraftab
5 Within the Walls Home-Based Work in Lahore
81(12)
Anita M. Weiss
6 "Good Housewives" Seamstresses in the Brazilian Garment Industry
93(18)
Alice Rangel de Paiva Abreu
Bila Sorj
7 "Bibi Khanum" Carpet Weavers and Gender Ideology in Iran
111(18)
Zohreh Ghavamshahidi
8 Home-Based Work as a Rural Survival Strategy A Central Javanese Perspective
129(14)
Dewi Haryani Susilastuti
9 Finland Is Another World The Gendered Time of Homework
143(24)
Minna Salmi
Illustrations
167(12)
PART THREE Divergent Responses State Policies and Homeworker Organizing 179(112)
10 Making Cadillacs and Buicks for General Motors Homework as Rural Development in the Midwestern United States
179(24)
Christina Gringeri
11 Biases in Labor Law A Critique from the Standpoint of Home-Based Workers
179(24)
Elisabeth Prugl
12 "Feminization Through Flexible Labor" The Political Economy of Home-Based Work in India
219(20)
Jeanne Hahn
13 Organizing Homeworkers into Unions The Homeworkers' Association of Toronto, Canada
239(20)
Alexandra Dagg
14 Women's Empowerment in the Making The Philippine Bid for Social Protection
259(14)
Lucita Lazo
15 Making Links The Growth of Homeworker Networks
273(18)
Jane Tate
Bibliography 291(22)
Index 313(12)
Contributors 325

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