| Description |
x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Between home and factory : homeworkers and the state / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Black women and paid labor in the home : industrial homework in Chicago in the 1920s / Eileen Boris -- Women, work, and the family : industrial homework in Rhode Island in 1934 / Susan Porter Benson -- Texas homeworkers in the 1930s / Julia Kirk Blackwelder -- Section two, images of homework : a pictorial essay / Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels -- The demand for homework : evidence from the U.S. Census / Hilary Silver -- The family context of home shoe work / Betty A. Beach -- Electronic subassemblers in Central New York : nontraditional homeworkers in a nontraditional homework industry / Jamie Faricellia Dangler -- Hispanic women and homework : women in the informal economy of Miami and Los Angeles / M. Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Anna Garcia. |
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Home-based clerical work : no simple truth, no single reality / Kathleen Christensen -- The clerical homework program at the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation / Cynthia B. Costello -- Organization barriers to professional telework / Margrethe H. Olson -- Homework and women's rights : the case of the Vermont knitters, 1980-85 / Eileen Boris -- Home-based work : labor's choices / Virginia duRivage and David Jacobs -- Locating homework in an analysis of the ideological and material constraints on women's paid work / Sheila Allen. |
| Subject |
Home labor -- United States -- History.
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Home labor. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women -- Employment -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Boris, Eileen, 1948-
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Daniels, Cynthia R.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Homework. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1989 (OCoLC)582423871 |
| ISBN |
0252016017 alkaline paper |
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9780252016011 alkaline paper |
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0252060547 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780252060540 paperback alkaline paper |
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