No Place Like Home

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No Place Like Home

Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

Gender studies, gender groups Social theory Sociology: work and labour

Author: David Staples

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Collection: New Approaches in Sociology

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 21st November 2007

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 603 Kb

ISBN: 9781135867249


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.

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