| Autor: |
Rowbotham, Sheila, Tate, Jane, Drew, Eileen, Emerek, Ruth, Mahon, Evelyn |
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| Zdroj: |
Women, Work & the Family in Europe; 1998, p112-123, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
This chapter presents information on homeworking. Homework defined as the paid employment of women in the home, is often seen as an form of employment associated with Victorian images of sweated labor rather than the economies of modern Europe. Their circumstances remain elusive. Official sources give little information about homeworkers. Their employment is usually unregistered and sometimes illegal. Few homeworkers are members of trade unions, so they are not usually covered by labor research. A documentation of homeworking is rooted in a wider understanding of women's work which has implications not simply for women but for employment policy as a whole. Though most homeworkers are women there are some broad distinctions which can be made geographically in the structure of the labor force and in the social groups who do homework. In northern Europe homework is common in minority and migrant communities, though it is also to be found among indigenous women in both cities and in the countryside. In southern Europe it is likely to be in both rural and urban areas, can be linked to craft production and is common not only among those who are impoverished but among the better off. Women take up homework mainly because of the lack of alternative ways of earning a livelihood. Homeworkers are invariably caught in a web of low-paid employment options and are forced to rely on doing several types of work. |
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