In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the
world of work. Bringing the factory or office into the home
challenges this division. From the 1870s, when New York cigarmakers
attempted to end tenement competition, to New Deal prohibitions in
the 1930s, gender ideologies shaped the battle over homework. But
by the 1980s, the middle-class mother at the keyboard replaced the
victimized immigrant as the symbol of homework. Home to Work
restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate
over their labor. The book also provides a historical context to
the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to
contract precluded regulation, now women's right to employment
undermined prohibition. Whether empowerment comes from rights to
homework or rights as workers depends on whether homeworkers become
visible as workers who happen to mother.
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