Making the home work: Women's home -based work in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Title
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Making the home work: Women's home -based work in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Identifier
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AAI9959203
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identifier
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9959203
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Creator
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Lopez-Estrada, Silvia.
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Contributor
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Adviser: William Kornblum
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Date
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2000
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Social Structure and Development | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies | Women's Studies | Economics, Labor
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Abstract
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In this dissertation I provide a detailed analysis of the contemporary forms of home-based work in Tijuana, a Mexican city located in the US-Mexico border. By using in-depth interviews with women home-based workers, this micro socio-spatial analysis is able to focus in the relationship between production and reproduction at the scale of the household. I propose that what structures the relationship between both spheres is the socio-spatial conflict and the time-space household arrangements women practice in everyday life to balance home and work.;In this study home-based work is composed of activities of commerce and services carried out in the worker's household for monetary income or barter exchange. This kind of work is heterogeneous in terms of activities, legal regulation, material resources, women's motivations and experiences according to individual and family situations. Women's engagement in home-based work depends on several variables: At the macro structural level, the local labor market conditions and government employment policies; at the level of the household, the structure and organization of daily life; and individual factors like women's occupation, social class and life course.;In revealing the map of daily interactions within the household, this study discloses an array of time-space arrangements women use to accommodate paid work at home. The study emphasizes the spatial consequences of home-based work for gender relations and the social ecology of family life, for which a particular framework focused on the intersection between gender and space at the level of the household, has been developed. The analytical framework used in this investigation demonstrates a new way of organizing research on home-based work in order to avoid dichotomous categories commonly used.;The study focuses on the home as an interactive site for multiple social relationships and addresses the diversity of meanings that women home-based workers attach to the home as living and working space, as a result of the interplay between material practices and social relations that take place when the home is produced as workplace.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
