Home to Work - Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Eileen Boris
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-45548-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-521-45548-0
Barcode:	9780521455480

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