No Place Like Home

Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-97797-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: New Approaches in Sociology

No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Staples, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Invisible Threads of Homeworker Organizing 1. The Turbulent World of Home-based Work 2. ‘No Place Like Home’: Marxist and Feminist Topographies of House and Homework 3. Homeworker Organizing: Child-care Workers Under Welfare Reform in the United States 4. Child-care Workers In and Against the State 5. The Biopolitics of Homework 6. Political Economy and the Unpredictable Politics of Women’s Home-Based Work

Über Autor(innen)

David Staples is on-leave as the Development Director of Tenants & Workers United, a grassroots organization based in Northern Virginia. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Visiting Associate Lecturer in Women’s Studies at George Washington University, where he is supporting the Women In and Beyond the Global Prison Project. Mr. Staples has a Ph.D. in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at Long Island University in Brooklyn, York College and Queens College, CUNY.