Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic history, and especially in the past and present of home-based work and homebas...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill nv
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Studies in global social history ;
Volume 45. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645713206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures, Tables and Graphs
- Notes on Contributors
- Saludo A Las Trabajadoras En Domicilio
- Greetings to Home-based Workers
- Introduction: History-Visibility-Recognition-Organizing
- 1 Conceptualizing the Invisibility of Home-based Work
- 1.1 Visibility and Recognition: Debating the Power of Definition
- 1.2 Shifting Sands: Research on Home-based Work Across Time
- 1.3 Towards a Global History of Home-based Work under Capitalism
- 1.4 Engaging with the Work, Life and Organizing Experiences of Home Workers across Time and Space
- 2 Looking to the Future from the Past and the Present
- 2.1 The Structure of This Volume
- Part 1
- Chapter 1 Introduction Continuity and Change: Gender, Place, and Skill Formation in Home-based Production
- Chapter 2 Reading the Margins of Business Censuses: The Garment Industry and Home-based Industrial Work in Sweden and Finland, 1930s to 1960s
- 1 Business Censuses as Sources
- 2 Reported but Not Published
- 3 The Return of Home Industry in Interwar Sweden
- 4 Postwar Economic Growth and the Home Industry in Sweden
- 5 Was Finland too Underdeveloped or too Modern for Home Industry?
- 6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 3 "A Virtuous Woman Knows How to Sew": Labour, Craft, and Domesticity in Buenos Aires During the 1850s and 1860s
- 1 Buenos Aires in the Mid-nineteenth Century
- 2 Needlework in Buenos Aires in the 1850s-1860s
- 3 Sewing in Your Own House or Someone Else's
- 4 Own Account Workers Sewing by the Piece
- 5 Productive Leisure: Middle-class Wives and Daughters
- 6 Between Craft and Industry: Sewing in Shops and Atéliers
- 7 Looking for a Maid Who Can Sew
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Schools
- 10 Convalecencia
- 11 Conclusion.
- Chapter 4 Sewing at Home in Greece, 1870s to 1930s: A Global History Perspective
- 1 Studies on Business and Labour History
- 2 Introducing the Sewing Machine into a Global Market
- 3 The Greek Economy, Manufacture, Labour, and Movement of Populations in the Nineteenth Century and the Interwar Period
- 4 Sewing Machines in Greece: Promotion, Advertisement, Education
- 5 Education and Training in Sewing
- 6 Working at home
- 7 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 5 Women's Home-based Work in Istanbul's Garment Industry: Gender Inequalities and Industrial Work
- 1 Global Commodity Chains and Home-based Work
- 2 Flexible Organization and Subcontracting in Istanbul's Garment Industry
- 3 Home-based Piece-work in Istanbul's Garment Industry
- 4 Women as Piece-workers
- 5 Recruiting Piece-workers and Flexibility of Labour
- 6 Income from Piece-work: Charity or Survival?
- 7 Uneasy Definitions of Work
- 8 Elişi: A Path from Household to Labour Market for Women
- 9 Conclusion
- Part 2
- Chapter 6 Introduction between Ban and Human Rights: The Regulation of Home-based Work Since the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 7 From Industrial Evil to Decent Work: The ilo and Changing Perspectives towards Home-based Labour
- 1 Interwar Years, 1919-39
- 2 Development Decades, 1944-75
- 3 Trade Unions Take Command, 1970s-1980s
- 4 ilo Discovers the "New Putting out System"
- 5 Conclusion: Towards Convention No. 177
- Chapter 8 Realising Rights for Homeworkers in Global Value Chains
- 1 Global Value Chains and Home Workers
- 2 International Human Rights Instruments
- 3 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- 4 States' Duty to Protect Human Rights
- 5 Corporations' Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
- 6 Access to Remedy
- 7 oecd Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
- 8 oecd Due Diligence Guidance in the Garment and Footwear Sector
- 9 The ilo's mne Declaration
- 10 The Potential of International Instruments to Protect Home Workers
- 11 ilo Convention No. 177 on Home Work and National Legislation to Protect Home Workers
- 12 Bulgaria: Expanding Existing Labour Legislation
- 13 Specific Legislation to Protect Home Workers: The Case of Thailand
- 14 Australia's Supply Chain Legislation
- 15 A Comparison of the Different Approaches at the National Level
- 16 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 9 Home Work in Thailand: Challenges to Formalization
- 1 Convention 177 and Recommendation 184: Connecting Core Labour Standards and a Decent Work Agenda
- 2 Home Work in Thailand before the Enactment of the Home Workers Protection Act B.E. 2553 (2010)
- 3 The Way to a Formal Economy: The Home Workers Protection Act B.E. 2553 (2010) and Social Protection
- 4 Tools of Implementation: Supervision and Protection, Promotion and Development Mechanisms for Home Work
- 4.1 Dispute Settlement and Penalties
- 5 Social Protection
- 6 Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy
- 6.1 Work and Remuneration of Home Workers: Implications for the Transition from Informal to Formal Economy
- 6.2 Challenges and Opportunities in the Transition to the Formal Economy: Conclusion and Recommendations
- Part 3
- Chapter 10 Introduction between Citizens' and Workers' Rights: Struggles for the Recognition of Home Workers as Workers
- 1 Cherchez la Femme: A Contribution to Labour History
- 2 Grievances of Home Workers
- 3 Strategies of Resistance
- 4 Outcomes of Resistance
- Chapter 11 Genealogies and Assemblages of Resistance: Jeanne Bouvier's Struggles in 'Le Travail à Domicile'
- 1 Genealogies and Archives: Jeanne Bouvier's Lived Experiences of Industrial Home Work.
- 2 Bouvier's Agonistic Politics and Assemblage Theories
- 3 Writing as a Modality of Resistance
- Chapter 12 Industrial Home Work and Fordism in Western Europe: Women's Activism, Labour Legislation and Union's Mobilization in Golden Age Italy, 1945-75
- 1 Women's Agency, Parliamentary Enquiries and Labour Legislation in 1950s Italy
- 2 Industrial Home Work, Fordism and Economic Development
- 3 Industrial Home Workers' Strikes and Women's Mobilization against Job Precarity in 1960s Italy
- 4 Industrial Home Workers as Wage Workers: The Struggle for Recognition, 1968-73
- 5 The Explosion of Home-based Work in the Wake of the Fordist Crisis: Critiques and Mobilization of Unions and Women
- 6 Conclusions
- Chapter 13 Refusing Invisibility: Women Workers in Subcontracted Work in a South Indian City
- 1 Study Setting and Methods
- 2 The Origins: The Making of an Informal and Female Workforce
- 3 The Process and Chain of Subcontracted Production
- 4 Why Do Women Choose Appalam Work?
- 5 The Unit Owner: "Self-Made' Entrepreneur or a Cog in the Wheel of Subcontracted Production?
- 6 Naming the "Hidden" Employer and Exposing the "Dummy" Union
- 7 Strike Action and Wage Bargaining
- 8 Women's Earnings and Household Survival
- 9 Citizenship Claims vis-à-vis the State
- 10 Discussion and Conclusion
- Chapter 14 Home-based Workers: Organizing from Local to Global
- 1 Organizing: A Long Journey
- 2 On the Ground and in the Regions
- 3 Reviving HomeNet International
- 4 Conclusion
- 5 Postscript
- Saludo A Las Mujeres Trabajadoras
- Part 4
- Chapter 15 Introduction Perspectives on Contemporary Home-based Work
- Chapter 16 Contemporary Digital Home Work: Old Challenges, Different Solutions?
- 1 Crowd Work: Digital Home Work in the Twenty-first Century
- 2 Exercising Control in Crowd Work: Management through Algorithm.
- 3 Insufficient Work, Low Earnings and Inefficiencies Borne by the Worker13
- 4 Who Are Crowd Workers? Why Do They Perform Crowd Work?
- 5 Reasons for Crowd-working
- 6 A Closer Look at Care Responsibilities among American amt Workers19
- 7 Regulating Crowd Work: Technological Tools for Ensuring Effective Protection
- 8 Conclusion
- Chapter 17 Dynamics of Contemporary Capitalist Accumulation and the Prospects for Home Work in the Indian Garment Industry
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Identifying Home Workers in the Circuit of Production
- 3 Why Home Workers Are Marginal to Export-oriented Production
- 4 Conclusion
- Chapter 18 Are We Not Being Entrepreneurial? Exploring the Home/Work Negotiation of South Asian Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs in Canada
- 1 Being Enterprising
- 2 Research Findings
- 3 Challenging Neoliberal Ideologies of Success
- 4 Mobilizing Ethnic/Community Ties
- 5 Conclusions
- Chapter 19 Home-based Manufacturing Work for Women in India: Drivers and Dimensions
- 1 A Longer View on the Existence of Home-based Work: A Brief Review
- 2 Dimensions and Organization of Home-based Work in Developing Regions
- 3 The Indian Growth Story: Setting the Context
- 4 Manufacturing Output and Employment Growth in the Period of Globalization
- 5 Women Workers in the Manufacturing Sector
- 6 Rural
- 7 Urban
- 8 What Drove Manufacturing Work for Women in India?
- 9 Dimensions of Home-based Manufacturing Work of Women
- 10 Drivers of Home-Based Manufacturing Work of Women in Brief
- 11 Concluding Comments
- Part 5
- Chapter 20 Artwork
- Sewing Factory Sisters!
- Öxabäck if - Without You No Tomorrow
- Chapter 21 Postscript: Launching an International Network of Home-based Workers During the covid-19 Crisis
- 1 The Current Situation of Home-based Workers
- 2 The Congress
- 3 Future Prospects
- Shared Dreams
- Bibliography.
- Index.
