No place like home : organizing home-based labor in the era of structural adjustment / David E. Staples.

Author/creator Staples, David E.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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SeriesNew approaches in sociology
New approaches in sociology. ^A597741
Contents Introduction: the invisible threads of homeworker organizing -- The turbulent world of home-based work -- "No place like home": Marxist and feminist topographies of house and homework -- Homeworker organizing: child-care workers under welfare reform in the United States -- Child-care workers in and against the state -- The biopolitics of homework -- Political economy and the unpredictable politics of women's home-based work.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-169) and index.
LCCN 2006018039
ISBN0415977975 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780415977975