ABSTRACT
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
part 1|59 pages
Overview
chapter 2|19 pages
Sexual Divisions, Gender Constructions
The Historical Meaning of Homework in Western Europe and the United States
part 2|116 pages
The Homework Experience
part 3|113 pages
Divergent Responses
chapter 10|23 pages
Making Cadillacs and Buicks for General Motors
Homework as Rural Development in the Midwestern United States
chapter 12|20 pages
“Feminization Through Flexible Labor”
The Political Economy of Home-Based Work in India
chapter 13|20 pages
Organizing Homeworkers into Unions
The Homeworkers' Association of Toronto, Canada
