Homeworkers in Global Perspective

For the first time in history, homeworkers--those who work at home for pay--are organizing at the international level. "Homeworkers in Global Perspective" emerges from the efforts of homeworker advocates around the world to make these workers visible. The volume's contributors document the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize.
"Homeworkers in Global Perspective" covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based work and homeworker organizing. Home-based labor embraces a variety of work arrangements including the seamstress on piece rates, the producer in a crafts cooperative, and the weaver in a family business. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples. The editors and contributors have done extensive research on home-based work in the United States and internationally, and have participated in the creation of the international homeworker movement.
There is no other collection that provides such a comprehensive and international overview of this topic and which brings together the voices of policy experts, activists, feminist scholars, and homeworkers. "Homeworkers in Global Perspective" demonstrates that homeworkers can and must be organized and makes a much-needed intervention in an area that has been overlooked too long.
Contributors: Alice Rangelde Paiva Abreu, Eileen Boris, Alexandra Dagg, Zohreh Ghavamshahidi, Christina Gringeri, Jeanne Hahn, Lucita Lazo, Faranak Miraftab, Elisabeth Prugl, Minna Salmi, Bila Sorj, Dewi Haryani Susilastuti, Jane Tate, Anita M. Weiss