| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) |
| Series |
Rural America |
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Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.)
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| Contents |
Industrial Homework as Rural Development -- Restructured Production: Homework as Rural Development -- Homeworkers in the Heartland -- Integrating Home and Informal-Sector Work -- Understanding Industrial Homework as Subsidized Development -- Homework in a Comparative Context |
| Summary |
In this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of homeworking on workers - mainly women - and their families and explores the role of the state in subsidizing the development of homeworking jobs that depend on gender as an organizing principle. She focuses on two Midwestern communities - Riverton, Wisconsin, and Prairie Hills, Iowa - where more than 80 families have supplemented their incomes since 1986 as home-based contractors of small auto parts for The Middle Company, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and subcontractor of General Motors. Gringeri looks at rural development from the perspective of local and state officials as well as that of the workers. Through the use of extensive personal interviews, she shows how the advantage of homework for women - being able to stay home with their families - is outweighed by the disadvantages - piecework pay far below minimum wage, long hours, unstable contracts, and lack of company benefits. Instead of providing the hoped-for financial panacea for rural families, Gringeri argues, industrial homework reinforces the unequal position of women as low-wage workers and holds families and communities below or near poverty level |
| Analysis |
Gender studies: women & girls |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Home labor -- Middle West -- Case studies
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Rural development -- Middle West -- Case studies
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Rural women -- Employment -- Middle West -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Home labor
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Rural development
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Rural women -- Employment
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Ländliche Entwicklung
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Heimarbeit
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Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
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Frau
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Home-based business -- Middle West -- Case studies.
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Middle West
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Mittlerer Westen
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780700630950 |
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0700630953 |
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