ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the concepts of home and work and argues that such notions are constituted by class, cultural and gender divisions. It examines the interrelationships between home and work by looking at the links between housing and labour markets, at homework and tied accommodation, and at the new forms of the home/work interrelationship that are emerging. The ‘home’ implies particular social relations, or activities within a physical structure, and is strongly linked with a notion of family. Looking at the concept of ‘home’ historically it is clear that the home has had, and continues to have, a quite different and shifting meaning for the working and middle classes, and for working- and- middle-class women. R. Pahl’s work supports the argument that notions of work have hitherto been dominated by male paid employment. The use of home-work by capital as a means of reducing the costs of production and combating forms of collective organization within the workplace is not new.
