Homeworkers in Global Perspective

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ISBN: 9780415910064 | 0415910064
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1996

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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.

List of Illustrations

(2)

Acknowledgments

PART ONE Overview

(60)

1 Introduction

(16)

Elisabeth Prugl

Eileen Boris

2 Sexual Divisions, Gender Constructions The Historical Meaning of Homework in Western Europe and the United States

(20)

Eileen Boris

3 Home-Based Producers in Development Discourse

(24)

Elisabeth Prugl

PART TWO The Homework Experience Housewives, Mothers, and Workers

(116)

4 Space, Gender, and Work Home-Based Workers in Mexico

(18)

Faranak Miraftab

5 Within the Walls Home-Based Work in Lahore

(12)

Anita M. Weiss

6 "Good Housewives" Seamstresses in the Brazilian Garment Industry

(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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