Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism and Class at Work

Homeworking has been given an attractive, even glamorous, image by the spread of information technology into the home. The traditional portrayal of the manufacturing homeworker sweating over an ancient sewing machine for a pittance is, we are told, a thing of the past. In this book, Annie Phizacklea and Carol Wolkowitz question this assumption, and reveal what conditions are really like for women who do paid work at home.

Homeworking Women provides an up-to-date overview of all t…