No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

Staples, David (Author)

ISBN 10: 0415655757 / ISBN 13: 9780415655750

Published by Routledge, 2012

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192 pages. 5.98x9.02x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415655757
• ISBN 13: 9780415655750
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Staples is on-leave as the Development Director of Tenants & Workers United, a grassroots organization based in Northern Virginia. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Visiting Associate Lecturer in Women’s Studies at George Washington University, where he is supporting the Women In and Beyond the Global Prison Project. Mr. Staples has a Ph.D. in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at Long Island University in Brooklyn, York College and Queens College, CUNY.