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 homebas...

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.