In deze bundel worden verschillende soorten thuisarbeid behandeld, zoals naaisters op stukloon, coöperatiewerkers, weefsters in familiebedrijven. Eveneens aandacht voor de groeiende organisatiebereidheid. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Sexual divisions, gender constructions / door Eileen Boris: Home-based producers in development discourse / door Elisabeth Prügl: Space, gender, and work: home-based workers in Mexico / door Faranak Miraftab: Within the walls: home-based work in Lahore / door Anita M. Weiss: 'Good housewives': seamstresses in the Brazilian garment industry / door Alice Rangel de Paiva Abreu en Bila Sorj: 'Bibi Khanum': carpet weavers and gender ideology in Iran / door Zohreh Ghavamshahidi: Home-based work as a rural survival strategy: a central Javanese perspective / door Dewi Haryani Susilastuti: Finland is another world: the gendered time of homework / door Minna Salmi: Making Cadillacs and Buicks for General Motors: homework as rural development in the Midwestern United States / door Christina Gringeri: Biases in labor law: a critique from the standpoint of home-based workers / door Elisabeth Prügl: 'Feminization through flexible labor': the political economy of home-based work in India / door Jeanne Hahn: Organizing homeworkers into unions: The Homeworkers' Association of Toronto, Canada / door Alexandra Dagg: Women's empowerment in the making: the Philippine bid for social protection / door Lucita Lazo: Making links: the growth of homeworker networks / door Jane Tate.