Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) / Malin Nilsson, Indrani Mazumdar, and Silke Neunsinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nilsson, Malin, 1966- author.

Mazumdar, Indrani, author.

Neunsinger, Silke, author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; Volume 45.

Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 421 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2022

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic history, and especially in the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers.

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures, Tables and Graphs

Notes on Contributors

Saludo A Las Trabajadoras En Domicilio

Greetings to Home-based Workers

Introduction: History-Visibility-Recognition-Organizing

1 Conceptualizing the Invisibility of Home-based Work

1.1 Visibility and Recognition: Debating the Power of Definition

1.2 Shifting Sands: Research on Home-based Work Across Time

1.3 Towards a Global History of Home-based Work under Capitalism

1.4 Engaging with the Work, Life and Organizing Experiences of Home Workers across Time and Space

2 Looking to the Future from the Past and the Present

2.1 The Structure of This Volume

Part 1

Chapter 1 Introduction Continuity and Change: Gender, Place, and Skill Formation in Home-based Production

Chapter 2 Reading the Margins of Business Censuses: The Garment Industry and Home-based Industrial Work in Sweden and Finland, 1930s to 1960s

1 Business Censuses as Sources

2 Reported but Not Published

3 The Return of Home Industry in Interwar Sweden

4 Postwar Economic Growth and the Home Industry in Sweden

5 Was Finland too Underdeveloped or too Modern for Home Industry?

6 Conclusion

Chapter 3 "A Virtuous Woman Knows How to Sew": Labour, Craft, and Domesticity in Buenos Aires During the 1850s and 1860s

1 Buenos Aires in the Mid-nineteenth Century

2 Needlework in Buenos Aires in the 1850s-1860s

3 Sewing in Your Own House or Someone Else's

4 Own Account Workers Sewing by the Piece

5 Productive Leisure: Middle-class Wives and Daughters

6 Between Craft and Industry: Sewing in Shops and Atéliers

7 Looking for a Maid Who Can Sew

8 Institutions

9 Schools

10 Convalecencia

11 Conclusion.

Chapter 4 Sewing at Home in Greece, 1870s to 1930s: A Global History Perspective

1 Studies on Business and Labour History

2 Introducing the Sewing Machine into a Global Market

3 The Greek Economy, Manufacture, Labour, and Movement of Populations in the Nineteenth Century and the Interwar Period

4 Sewing Machines in Greece: Promotion, Advertisement, Education

5 Education and Training in Sewing

6 Working at home

7 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Women's Home-based Work in Istanbul's Garment Industry: Gender Inequalities and Industrial Work

1 Global Commodity Chains and Home-based Work

2 Flexible Organization and Subcontracting in Istanbul's Garment Industry

3 Home-based Piece-work in Istanbul's Garment Industry

4 Women as Piece-workers

5 Recruiting Piece-workers and Flexibility of Labour

6 Income from Piece-work: Charity or Survival?

7 Uneasy Definitions of Work

8 Elişi: A Path from Household to Labour Market for Women

9 Conclusion

Part 2

Chapter 6 Introduction between Ban and Human Rights: The Regulation of Home-based Work Since the Twentieth Century

Chapter 7 From Industrial Evil to Decent Work: The ilo and Changing Perspectives towards Home-based Labour

1 Interwar Years, 1919-39

2 Development Decades, 1944-75

3 Trade Unions Take Command, 1970s-1980s

4 ilo Discovers the "New Putting out System"

5 Conclusion: Towards Convention No. 177

Chapter 8 Realising Rights for Homeworkers in Global Value Chains

1 Global Value Chains and Home Workers

2 International Human Rights Instruments

3 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

4 States' Duty to Protect Human Rights

5 Corporations' Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

6 Access to Remedy

7 oecd Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

8 oecd Due Diligence Guidance in the Garment and Footwear Sector

9 The ilo's mne Declaration

10 The Potential of International Instruments to Protect Home Workers

11 ilo Convention No. 177 on Home Work and National Legislation to Protect Home Workers

12 Bulgaria: Expanding Existing Labour Legislation

13 Specific Legislation to Protect Home Workers: The Case of Thailand

14 Australia's Supply Chain Legislation

15 A Comparison of the Different Approaches at the National Level

16 Conclusion

Chapter 9 Home Work in Thailand: Challenges to Formalization

1 Convention 177 and Recommendation 184: Connecting Core Labour Standards and a Decent Work Agenda

2 Home Work in Thailand before the Enactment of the Home Workers Protection Act B.E. 2553 (2010)

3 The Way to a Formal Economy: The Home Workers Protection Act B.E. 2553 (2010) and Social Protection

4 Tools of Implementation: Supervision and Protection, Promotion and Development Mechanisms for Home Work

4.1 Dispute Settlement and Penalties

5 Social Protection

6 Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

6.1 Work and Remuneration of Home Workers: Implications for the Transition from Informal to Formal Economy

6.2 Challenges and Opportunities in the Transition to the Formal Economy: Conclusion and Recommendations

Part 3

Chapter 10 Introduction between Citizens' and Workers' Rights: Struggles for the Recognition of Home Workers as Workers

1 Cherchez la Femme: A Contribution to Labour History

2 Grievances of Home Workers

3 Strategies of Resistance

4 Outcomes of Resistance

Chapter 11 Genealogies and Assemblages of Resistance: Jeanne Bouvier's Struggles in 'Le Travail à Domicile'

1 Genealogies and Archives: Jeanne Bouvier's Lived Experiences of Industrial Home Work.

2 Bouvier's Agonistic Politics and Assemblage Theories

3 Writing as a Modality of Resistance

Chapter 12 Industrial Home Work and Fordism in Western Europe: Women's Activism, Labour Legislation and Union's Mobilization in Golden Age Italy, 1945-75

1 Women's Agency, Parliamentary Enquiries and Labour Legislation in 1950s Italy

2 Industrial Home Work, Fordism and Economic Development

3 Industrial Home Workers' Strikes and Women's Mobilization against Job Precarity in 1960s Italy

4 Industrial Home Workers as Wage Workers: The Struggle for Recognition, 1968-73

5 The Explosion of Home-based Work in the Wake of the Fordist Crisis: Critiques and Mobilization of Unions and Women

6 Conclusions

Chapter 13 Refusing Invisibility: Women Workers in Subcontracted Work in a South Indian City

1 Study Setting and Methods

2 The Origins: The Making of an Informal and Female Workforce

3 The Process and Chain of Subcontracted Production

4 Why Do Women Choose Appalam Work?

5 The Unit Owner: "Self-Made' Entrepreneur or a Cog in the Wheel of Subcontracted Production?

6 Naming the "Hidden" Employer and Exposing the "Dummy" Union

7 Strike Action and Wage Bargaining

8 Women's Earnings and Household Survival

9 Citizenship Claims vis-à-vis the State

10 Discussion and Conclusion

Chapter 14 Home-based Workers: Organizing from Local to Global

1 Organizing: A Long Journey

2 On the Ground and in the Regions

3 Reviving HomeNet International

4 Conclusion

5 Postscript

Saludo A Las Mujeres Trabajadoras

Part 4

Chapter 15 Introduction Perspectives on Contemporary Home-based Work

Chapter 16 Contemporary Digital Home Work: Old Challenges, Different Solutions?

1 Crowd Work: Digital Home Work in the Twenty-first Century

2 Exercising Control in Crowd Work: Management through Algorithm.

3 Insufficient Work, Low Earnings and Inefficiencies Borne by the Worker13

4 Who Are Crowd Workers? Why Do They Perform Crowd Work?

5 Reasons for Crowd-working

6 A Closer Look at Care Responsibilities among American amt Workers19

7 Regulating Crowd Work: Technological Tools for Ensuring Effective Protection

8 Conclusion

Chapter 17 Dynamics of Contemporary Capitalist Accumulation and the Prospects for Home Work in the Indian Garment Industry

1 Introduction

2 Identifying Home Workers in the Circuit of Production

3 Why Home Workers Are Marginal to Export-oriented Production

Chapter 18 Are We Not Being Entrepreneurial? Exploring the Home/Work Negotiation of South Asian Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs in Canada

1 Being Enterprising

2 Research Findings

3 Challenging Neoliberal Ideologies of Success

4 Mobilizing Ethnic/Community Ties

5 Conclusions

Chapter 19 Home-based Manufacturing Work for Women in India: Drivers and Dimensions

1 A Longer View on the Existence of Home-based Work: A Brief Review

2 Dimensions and Organization of Home-based Work in Developing Regions

3 The Indian Growth Story: Setting the Context

4 Manufacturing Output and Employment Growth in the Period of Globalization

5 Women Workers in the Manufacturing Sector

6 Rural

7 Urban

8 What Drove Manufacturing Work for Women in India?

9 Dimensions of Home-based Manufacturing Work of Women

10 Drivers of Home-Based Manufacturing Work of Women in Brief

11 Concluding Comments

Part 5

Chapter 20 Artwork

Sewing Factory Sisters!

Öxabäck if - Without You No Tomorrow

Chapter 21 Postscript: Launching an International Network of Home-based Workers During the covid-19 Crisis

1 The Current Situation of Home-based Workers

2 The Congress

3 Future Prospects

Shared Dreams

Bibliography.

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-49961-X

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access