Getting By : Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development / / Christina E. Gringeri.
In this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of homeworking on workers—mainly women—and their families and explores the role of the state in subsidizing the development of homeworking jobs that depend on gender as an organizing principle. She focuses on two Midwestern communities—Riverto...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lawrence, Kan. : : University Press of Kansas,, 1994. |
Year of Publication: | 1994 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 200 p.) |
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