New Era Of Homebased Work

Kathleen E. Christensen is director of the National Project on Home-Based Work and associate professor of environmental psychology at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Women and Home-Based Work: The Unspoken Contract (1988) and of numerous articles on contingent work and the changing structure of the workforce.

• Foreword -- Introduction: White-Collar Home-Based Work—The Changing U.S. Economy and Family -- Trends and Patterns in Home-Based Work -- Homework in the Past, Its Meaning for the Future -- Homework: What Is It and Who Does It? -- Clerical Work at Home or in the Office: The Difference It Makes -- Corporate Hiring Practices for Telecommuting Homeworkers -- Independent Contracting -- Forces Driving Home-Based Work -- International Competition: Its Impact on Employment -- Office Automation Technology and Home-Based Work -- Corporate Culture and the Homeworker -- Clerical Home-Based Work: A Case Study of Work and Family -- What Role Should the Government Play in White-Collar Home-Based Work? -- The Government’s Role in Regulating Home Employment -- Protection of Clerical Homeworkers: From What, by Whom? -- Blue-Collar, White-Collar: Homeworker Problems -- Retirement and Health Coverage: Problems Affecting Homework -- Local Zoning Ordinances Governing Home Occupations -- Conclusion: Directions for the Future -- Conference Participants