TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gringeri,Christina E.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Getting By : : Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development / 
T2  - Rural America
SN  - 9780700630950
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Home-based business
KW  - Middle West
KW  - Case studies
KW  - sears
KW  - Frau
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
KW  - Heimarbeit
KW  - Ländliche Entwicklung
KW  - Rural women
KW  - Employment
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Home labor
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Femmes en milieu rural
KW  - Travail
KW  - Midwest (États-Unis)
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Developpement rural
KW  - Travail à domicile
KW  - Cas, Études de
KW  - Mittlerer Westen
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Industrial Homework as Rural Development --; Restructured Production: Homework as Rural Development --; Homeworkers in the Heartland --; Integrating Home and Informal-Sector Work --; Understanding Industrial Homework as Subsidized Development --; Homework in a Comparative Context; Open Access
N2  - 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 home-based 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 hoped-for financial panacea for rural families, Gringeri argues, industrial homework reinforces the unequal position of women as low-wage workers and holds families and communities below or near poverty level
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/94111/
ER  -