Making the Woman Worker

Making the Woman Worker
Author: Eileen Boris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190874627

This book explains how the 20th century labor standard regime, forged by the International Labor Organization, cast the woman worker as a special type of worker, but a century later, previously excluded home-based workers placed caring labor at the center of debates over the future of work amid new precarity.

The Woman Worker, 1926-1929

The Woman Worker, 1926-1929
Author: Margaret Helen Hobbs
Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Comprised of articles from the original periodical, Woman worker.

Woman Worker

Woman Worker
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1938
Genre:
ISBN:

The Woman Worker

The Woman Worker
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1940
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN:

Global Woman

Global Woman
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780805075090

Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.

The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers

The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
Author: Daniel James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822319962

In Latin American countries, the modern factory originally was considered a hostile and threatening environment for women and family values. Nine essays dealing with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala describe the contradictory experiences of women whose work defied gender prescriptions but was deemed necessary by working-class families in a world of need and scarcity. 19 photos.