Homework : historical and contemporary perspectives on paid labor at home / edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels.

Other author Boris, Eileen, 1948-
Other author Daniels, Cynthia R.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1989.
Descriptionx, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Between home and factory : homeworkers and the state / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Black women and paid labor in the home : industrial homework inChicago 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.
Contents 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 -- Homeworkand 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.
Local noteLittle-281291
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 88023232
ISBN0252016017 (alk. paper)
ISBN0252060547 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HD2336.U5 H66 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold