Wired to the World, Chained to the Home

Wired to the World, Chained to the Home
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0774808470
ISBN-13 : 9780774808477
Rating : 4/5 (477 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wired to the World, Chained to the Home by : Penny Gurstein

Download or read book Wired to the World, Chained to the Home written by Penny Gurstein and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does working at home change people’s activity patterns, social networks, and their living and working spaces? Will telecommuting solve many of society’s ills, or create new ghettos? Penny Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qualitative and quantitative data from ten years of original research, including in-depth interviews and surveys, to understand the impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting.


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