 | No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Sociology; Gender Studies - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Gender Studies; Social Theory; Sociology of Work & Industry; No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women. David Staples is on-leave as the Development Director of Tenants & Workers United, a grassroots organization based in Northern Virginia. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Visiting Associate Lecturer in Women's Studies at George Washington University, where he is supporting the Women In and Beyond the Global Prison Project. Mr. Staples has a Ph.D. in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at Long Island University in Brooklyn, York College and Queens College, CUNY. |
