Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.
Contents
Feminism, Constructivism, and the Global Politics of Home-Based Work -- Motherly Women -- Breadwinning Men: Industrial Homework and the Construction of Western Welfare States -- Supplemental Earners and National Essence: Home-Based Crafts Producers and Nation-Building in Post-Colonial States -- Marginal Survivors or Nurturant Entrepreneurs: Home-Based Workers in the Informal Sector -- Fordist Gender Rules at Issue: The Debate Over the ILO Home Work Convention -- Fordist Class Categories at Issue: Are Homeworkers Employees or Self-Employed? -- Studying Global Politics -- ILO Convention Concerning Home Work.