Jamie Faricellia Dangler

Hidden in the Home

The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book combines a case study of industrial homework in the electronics industry with a world-systems approach to understanding the role of home-based work in economic development. It spans the period from the nineteenth-century origins of industrial homework to the important role played by home-based work in current strategies of economic restructuring in manufacturing and service industries. The author draws a clear distinction between industrial homework and earlier forms of domestic labor, such as the putting-out system. She also clarifies the important differences between various forms of contemporary home-based work: waged homework in industrial and service occupations, professional telecommuting, home-based self-employment. Moving from the lives of homeworkers themselves to macro-level analyses, Dangler's case study provides a vantage point from which to examine theories of world economic development, theories of labor market segmentation, and recent analyses of the importance of informal sector activities in the modern economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780791421291
• ISBN-10: 0791421295
• Artikelnr.: 54146099

Autorenporträt

Jamie Faricellia Dangler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Cortland.