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Home to work : motherhood and the politics of industrial homework in the United States
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ISBN: 0521443709 0521455480 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge [England],New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press,

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Making the woman worker : precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019
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ISBN: 9780190874629 0190874627 019094370X 0190874635 0190874643 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's labors. Over time, the ILO embraced non-discrimination and equal treatment. It now promotes fair globalization, standardized employment and decent work for women in the developing world. In Making the Woman Worker, Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice. Boris analyzes three ways in which the ILO has classified the division of labor: between women and men from 1919 to 1958; between women in the global south and the west from 1955 to 1996; and between the earning and care needs of all workers from 1990s to today. Before 1945, the ILO focused on distinguishing feminized labor from male workers, whom the organization prioritized. But when the world needed more women workers, the ILO (a UN agency after WWII) highlighted the global differences in women's work, began to combat sexism in the workplace, and declared care work essential to women's labor participation. Today, the ILO enters its second century with a mission to protect the interests of all workers in the face of increasingly globalized supply chains, the digitization of homework, and cross-border labor trafficking. As Boris shows, the ILO's treatment of women is a window into the modern history of labor. The historic relegation of feminized labor to the part-time, short-term, and low-waged prefigures the future organization of work. The labor force is increasingly self-employed and working as long as possible--a steep price for flexibility--with minimal governmental oversight. How we treat workers in the next century will inevitably build upon evolving ideas of the woman worker, shaped significantly through the ILO.


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"Right to work" as a "women's right": the debate over the Vermont knitters, 1980-1985
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Year: 1986 Publisher: Madison, Wis. Institute for Legal Studies

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Making the Woman Worker : Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019.
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ISBN: 9780190874643 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated

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This book explains how the 20th century labor standard regime, forged by the International Labor Organization, cast the woman worker as a special type of worker, but a century later, previously excluded home-based workers placed caring labor at the center of debates over the future of work amid new precarity.

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Voices of women historians : the personal, the political, the professional.
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ISBN: 0253212758 Year: 1999 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana,


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Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
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ISBN: 0199378584 0199939055 019971634X 128373964X 0195329112 0199949492 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy. For decades, these front-line caregivers labored in the shadows o


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Complicating categories : an introduction

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Homeworkers in global perspective : invisible no more
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ISBN: 0415910072 9780415910071 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Intimate labors : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care
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ISBN: 0804777276 0804761930 0804761922 9780804761925 9780804761932 9780804777278 Year: 2010 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences,

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This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.

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