In this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of
homeworking on workers--mainly women--and their families and
explores the role of the state in subsidizing the development of
homeworking jobs that depend on gender as an organizing principle.
She focuses on two Midwestern communities--Riverton, Wisconsin and
Prairie Hills, Iowa--where more than 80 families have supplemented
their incomes since 1986 as home-based contractors of small auto
parts for The Middle Company, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and
subcontractor of General Motors.
Gringeri looks at rural development from the perspective of
local and state officials as well as that of the workers. Through
the use of extensive personal interviews, she shows how the
advantage of homework for women--being able to stay home with their
families--is outweighed by the disadvantages--piecework pay far
below minimum wage, long hours, unstable contracts, and lack of
company benefits.
Instead of providing the hoped-for financial panacea for rural
families, Gringeri argues, industrial homework reinforces the
unequal position of women as low-wage workers and holds families
and communities below or near poverty level.
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