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Getting By: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development

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dc.contributor.author Gringeri, Christina E.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-11-21T07:54:41Z
dc.date.available 2023-11-21T07:54:41Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description Publisher: University Press of Kansas ; License: CC-BY-NC ; Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1p2gjhr ; 201 pages
dc.description.abstract 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-Riverton, Wisconsin and Prairie Hills, Iowa-where more than 80 families have supplemented their incomes since 1986 as homebased contractors of small auto parts for The Middle Company, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and subcontractor of General Motors. Gringeri looks at rural development from the perspective of local and state officials as well as that of the workers. Through the use of extensive personal interviews, she shows how the advantage of homework for women-being able to stay home with their families-is outweighed by the disadvantages-piecework pay far below minimum wage, long hours, unstable contracts, and lack of company benefits. Instead of providing the hopedfor financial panacea for rural families, Gringeri argues, industrial homework reinforces the unequal position of women as lowwage workers and holds families and communities below or near poverty level.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-70063-095-0
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/10209
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject Feminist & Women's Studies
dc.title Getting By: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
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