Homeworking Women

By Annie Delaney (Author)

1st Edition | English Language | Published by Routledge

Dimensions: 6.38 x 0.64 x 9.45 inches

ISBN-10: 1783533625 | ISBN-13: 978-1783533626

Published Date: November 28, 2018 | Print Length: 196 pages

Homework is work that is categorized 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 through 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 analyze and confront the issues and problems of homework. The authors propose four justice dimensions—recognition, representation, rights, and redistribution—to examine and analyze 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 organizations working with or for the collective benefit of homeworkers, academics, and students interested in feminism, labor regulation, informal work, supply chains, and social and political justice.