Home to Work

Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States

AvEileen Boris

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to Work restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate over their labour. It provides a historical context to the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to contract inhibited regulation, now women's right to employment undermined prohibition. Economic and political justice, whether based on rights to homework or rights as workers, will depend on homeworkers becoming visible as workers who happen to mother.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-05-27
Mått:160 x 237 x 30 mm
Vikt:750 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:404
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521443708

Utforska kategorier

Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Recensioner i media

"The rewards to the reader are numerous--including, most importantly, a fascinating historical account generally supported by extensive research and documentation....what the reader ultimately gains from Boris's work is the most comprehensive knowledge available from a single source of the social history of homework in the United States." Contemporary Sociology

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction 'home, sweet home': gender, the state, and labor standards; Part I. Man's Freedom, Woman's Necessity: Jacobs and its Legacy: 1. 'A man's dwelling house is his castle': tenement house cigarmaking and the judicial imperative; 2. 'White slaves of the cities': campaigns against sweated clothing; 3. 'Women who work' and 'Women who spend': the family economy vs the family wage; Part II. Visions and Voices: 4. 'Soldiers of freedom', 'garments of slavery': patriotic homework; 5. 'To study their own conditions': states' rights to regulate; 6. 'Homework is a community question' the worlds of the homeworker; Part III. Engendering the New Deal: 7. 'To improve on business through law': homework under the NRA; 8. 'Strike while the iron is hot': the politics of enactment, the perils of enforcement; 9. 'Unknown to the common law': the fair labor standards act; Part IV. Homework Redux: 10. 'With a keyboard in one hand': white collars in the home; 11. Deregulating 'the rights of women'; Index.