{"product_id":"getting-by-christina-e-gringeri-9780700611072","title":"Getting by: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of homeworking on workers--mainly women--and their families and explores the role of the state in subsidizing the development of homeworking jobs that depend on gender as an organizing principle. She focuses on two Midwestern communities--Riverton, Wisconsin and Prairie Hills, Iowa--where more than 80 families have supplemented their incomes since 1986 as home-based contractors of small auto parts for The Middle Company, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and subcontractor of General Motors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGringeri looks at rural development from the perspective of local and state officials as well as that of the workers. Through the use of extensive personal interviews, she shows how the advantage of homework for women--being able to stay home with their families--is outweighed by the disadvantages--piecework pay far below minimum wage, long hours, unstable contracts, and lack of company benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of providing the hoped-for financial panacea for rural families, Gringeri argues, industrial homework reinforces the unequal position of women as low-wage workers and holds families and communities below or near poverty level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina E. Gringeri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 070061107X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700611072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Christina E. Gringeri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202158379263,"sku":"9780700611072","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dceb2664-080e-4e63-8491-4cc0ba92f11b.jpg?v=1756819799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/getting-by-christina-e-gringeri-9780700611072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}