Homework

Homework
Author: Eileen Boris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252060540

Homework clarifies the past and present of home-based labor using case studies which offer a rich portrait of homework. The authors recognize that we must examine the influence of gender, race, and class to fully comprehend the history of homework -- taken from back cover.

Home to Work

Home to Work
Author: Eileen Boris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1994-05-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521455480

In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to Work restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate over their labour. It provides a historical context to the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to contract inhibited regulation, now women's right to employment undermined prohibition. Economic and political justice, whether based on rights to homework or rights as workers, will depend on homeworkers becoming visible as workers who happen to mother.