No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment (New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice)

David E. Staples

ISBN 10: 0415977975 / ISBN 13: 9780415977975

Published by Routledge, 2006

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Examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. This book talks about home-based work that constitutes an enormous arena of "invisible" social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women. Series: New Approaches in Sociology. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385. . 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment (New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415977975
• ISBN 13: 9780415977975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.