Across the Home/Work Divide Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation

When Zhu, an industrial homeworker, wished to separate her working day from her domestic day, she left home by the front door and, a minute later, re-entered by the back door. This ritual act of leaving home to go to work enabled Zhu, at least for brief intervals, to assert her role as paid worker a...

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Published inChallenging the Public/Private Divide p. 144
Main Author AMANDA ARABA OCRAN
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Toronto Press 09.09.1997
Subjects
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Blue collar workers
Buildings
Business
Classroom activities
Clothing industry
Consumer goods industries
Dwellings
Economic disciplines
Economics
Education
Educational activities
Employment
Factory labor
Formal education
Homes
Homework
Human geography
Human populations
Industrial sectors
Industry
Labor
Labor economics
Manufacturing industries
Pedagogy
Persons
Population studies
Residential buildings
Social sciences
Student assignments
Teaching
Women
Workforce
Working women
Workplaces
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Summary:When Zhu, an industrial homeworker, wished to separate her working day from her domestic day, she left home by the front door and, a minute later, re-entered by the back door. This ritual act of leaving home to go to work enabled Zhu, at least for brief intervals, to assert her role as paid worker apart from her position as unpaid caregiver and homemaker. She said: ‘When I say now I go to work, the children wave goodbye, neighbours see me leave ... with everyone knowing that I really am working, I get more respect like in a real job
ISBN:0802076521
9780802076526
DOI:10.3138/9781442672819.10