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Home-based workers are an ever increasing proportion§of the Australian clothing industry's workforce. §With decreasing tariff protections and increasing§cheap imports of apparel into Australia, home-based§workers offer both competitive labour costs, but most§importantly, quick turnaround times. The media and§many academic studies, focus on this supply-side§story of how home-based workers underpin a§fundamentally transforming industry. This book turns§our attention to the lives of the (mostly) migrant§women who perform this work. Focusing on a newly§collectivising group of women entrepreneurs and§employees who do industrial sewing in their homes,§this study documents a progressive policy shift§that occurred in Sydney, Australia. The work§grapples with the complexities of mounting a case for§state endorsed minimum wage and condition protections§without an over-reliance on victimhood storylines. §This analysis sheds light on a usually invisible§subject, the home-based worker, and should be of§interest to those organising in the industry,§feminist scholars, and industry policy analysts.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Exploited or Entrepreneurs?
• Subtitle: A study of home-based working women in Australia's clothing industry
• Author: Elissa Sutherland
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9783639145144
• ISBN: 3639145143
• ID: 06823104
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2009

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