No Place Like Home - Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: David Staples, David (Long Island University Staples, Staples David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2006
• EAN: 9780415977975
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97797-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: New Approaches in Sociology; New Approaches in Sociology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General