Gender and Home-Based Employment

Herausgeber: Hennon, Charles B.; Walker, Rosemary; Loker, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Gender often influences the type of occupation that individuals choose, as well as the way they work and the outcomes of that work. Home-based employment is no different. The proximity of these workers to their families' living activities provides an unique opportunity to study the effects of work-at-home on family interaction and the role that gender plays in this traditionally female-dominated situation. The chapters provide a range of gender considerations from the perspectives of the workers and the workers' families, with emphasis on either the workers, the family, or the work/business. The first chapter provides an overview of the subjects being covered and defines several of the concepts used. The range of viewpoints is extensive: Chapter 2 considers home-based employment from a global perspective, while Chapter 8 narrows the focus to one particular location and type of home-based worker. Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 7 examine in various ways the data from a 9-state study, basing their analyses in theoretical and conceptual frameworks related to gender. Chapter 6 explores the dilemma of parents who have to hire child care in order to complete their home-based work. Also included are recommendations for public policy considerations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780865692718
• ISBN-10: 0865692718
• Artikelnr.: 22198460

Autorenporträt

CHARLES B. HENNON is Professor and Associate Director of the Family and Child Studies Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio./e SUZANNE LOKER is Professor, Department of Textiles and Apparel, Cornell University./e ROSEMARY WALKER is Professor of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University./e

Inhaltsangabe

Home-Based Employment: Considering Issues of Gender by Charles B. Hennon
Suzanne Loker
and Rosemary Walker Gender and Home-Based Employment in a Global Economy by Charles B. Hennon and Suzanne Loker Unexpected Outcomes: The Economics of Genderized Home-Based Business by Barbara R. Rowe
Kathyrn Stafford
Rosemary Walker
George W. Haynes
and Jeanette Arbuthnot Home-Based Employment: Relating Gender and Household Structure to Management and Child-Care by Holly Hunts
Sharon M. Danes
Deborah C. Haynes
and Ramona K.Z. Heck A Gender Comparison of Business Management Practices of Home-Based Business Owners by Cynthia R. Jasper
Karen P. Goebel
Kathryn Stafford
and Ramona K.Z. Heck Home-Based Employment and Work-Family Conflict: A Canadian Study by Rosemary S.L. Mills
Karen A. Duncan
and D. Jill Amyot Industry and Self-Employment Analysis by Gender by Elizabeth S. Trent Interweaving Home and Work Spheres: Gender and the Vermont Knitters by Suzanne Loker Index