Informal economy, gender and flexibility of the labour markeт. Industrial homeworking in rural Spain
Baylina Ferré, Mireia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolores, 1943- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)

Imprint:	International Geographical Union, 1995
Description:	16 pag.
Abstract:	The growing internationalization of economic activities in recent decades has been accompanied by the relocation and restructuring of work processes in many parts of the world and in different sectors of the economy, especially in labor intensive industries. This process of reorganization of production, lead by the search for a greater flexibility of the labour market, has implied an increasing importance of different forms of "atypical" work which quite often fall within the so-called "informal economy" in which female labour is prominent though it can scarcely be traced in statistical records. Therefore, qualitative field work and a gender-aware approach are needed to explain the nature of these changes as well as to identify some of the forces that shape the new spatial localization of production. A clear example of this restructuring in southern Europe is industrial homeworking that is carried out mainly by women within the context of the black economy. This essay tries to highlight the nature and function of women's industrial homeworking in the rural areas of Spain within this general context. In the first section we discuss the conceptual framework, the methodology and the presentation of the sample areas. The central section of the paper deals with the characteristics and nature of women's industrial homeworking as derived from the in-depth-interviews and questionnaires of the fieldwork, and in the final section we draw some conclusions.
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	Working Papers of the International Geographical Union ; 32
Document:	Working paper

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