| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Ntroduction: homework and gender justice -- Understanding homework and homeworkers -- The invisibilisation of homework -- Extension of labour regulation to homeworkers -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR): improving homeworkers recognition? -- The logic of the supply chain: barriers and strategies for homeworker representation -- Homeworkers organising: transnational to local -- Making change: a gender justice framework |
| Summary |
Homework; work that is categorised as informal employment, performed in the home, mainly for subcontractors and mostly undertaken by women. The inequities and injustices inherent in homework conditions maintain women's weak bargaining position, preventing them from making any improvements to their lives via their work. The best way to tackle these issues is not to abolish, but to bring equality and justice to homework. This book contributes a gender justice framework to analyse and confront the issues and problems of homework. The authors propose four justice dimensions - recognition, representation, rights and redistribution - to examine and analyse homework. This framework also takes into account the structures and processes of capitalism and the patriarchy, and the relations of domination that are widely held to be the major factors that determine homework injustice. The authors discuss strategies and approaches that have worked for homeworkers, highlighting why they worked and the features that were beneficial for them. Homeworking Women will be of interest to individuals and organisations working with or for the collective benefit of homeworkers, academics and students interested in feminism, labour regulation, informal work, supply chains and social and political justice |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Annie Delaney is Senior Lecturer, School of Management, College of Business, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. Rosaria Burchielli is Associate Professor (Honorary), Department of Management, La Trobe University, Australia. Shelley Marshall is Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia. Jane Tate worked as Coordinator of Homeworkers Worldwide, Leeds, UK, until September 2018 |
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Print version record |
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Home labor.
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Home labor -- Labor unions -- Organizing
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Employee rights.
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Sex discrimination in employment.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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Employee rights
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Home labor
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Sex discrimination in employment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429430121 |
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0429430124 |
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9780429772016 |
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0429772017 |
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9780429772023 |
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0429772025 |
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9780429772030 |
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0429772033 |
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