
Hidden in the Home
The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy
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.
- ISBN 13 : 9780791421307
- ISBN 10 : 0791421309
- Judul : Hidden in the Home
- Sub Judul : The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy
- Pengarang : Jamie Faricellia Dangler,
- Kategori : Business & Economics
- Penerbit : SUNY Press
- Bahasa : en
- Tahun : 1994
- Halaman : 225
- Halaman : 225
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of wire, number of times wire has to be wound around the core, size of the core)
of transformers used in the cable television industry. With Labor Department
action against electronics industry homework distributors in 1981-82, most
homework operations were transferred overseas, though two of the three firms
continued to employ some homeworkers. PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS The
printed circuit board is the heart of most high-technology electronic equipment. It
is a "flat piece of ...