Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at HomeEileen Boris, Cynthia R. Daniels Homework clarifies the past and present of home-based labor using case studies which offer a rich portrait of homework. The authors recognize that we must examine the influence of gender, race, and class to fully comprehend the history of homework -- taken from back cover. |
Contents
Between Home and Factory Homeworkers and the State | 13 |
Black Women and Paid Labor in the Home Industrial Homework in Chicago in the 1920s | 33 |
Women Work and the Family Economy Industrial Homework in Rhode Island in 1934 | 53 |
Texas Homeworkers in the 1930s | 75 |
Images of Homework A Pictorial Essay | 91 |
The Persistence of Homework | 101 |
The Demand for Homework Evidence from the US Census | 103 |
The Family Context of Home Shoe Work | 130 |
Homebased Clerical Work No Simple Truth No Single Reality | 183 |
The Clerical Homework Program at the Wisconsin Physicians Services Insurance Corporation | 198 |
Organizational Barriers to Professional Telework | 215 |
The Politics of Homework | 231 |
Homework and Womens Rights The Case of the Vermont Knitters 198085 | 233 |
HomeBased Work Labors Choices | 258 |
Locating Homework in an Analysis of the Ideological and Material Constraints on Womens Paid Work | 272 |
Notes on Contributors | 292 |
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