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

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 45
• VerfasserIn: Nilsson, Malin, 1966-; Mazumdar, Indrani,; Neunsinger, Silke,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mazumdar, Indrani,; Neunsinger, Silke,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 421 pages) :; illustrations

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.

Table of 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 -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- 4 Conclusion -- 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.