Exploited or Entrepreneurs?

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KS OmniScriptum Publishing

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491_9783639145144

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Home-based workers are an ever increasing proportionof the Australian clothing industrys workforce. With decreasing tariff protections and increasingcheap imports of apparel into Australia, home-basedworkers offer both competitive labour costs, but mostimportantly, quick turnaround times. The media andmany academic studies, focus on this supply-sidestory of how home-based workers underpin afundamentally transforming industry. This book turnsour attention to the lives of the (mostly) migrantwomen who perform this work. Focusing on a newlycollectivising group of women entrepreneurs andemployees who do industrial sewing in their homes,this study documents a progressive policy shiftthat occurred in Sydney, Australia. The workgrapples with the complexities of mounting a case forstate endorsed minimum wage and condition protectionswithout an over-reliance on victimhood storylines. This analysis sheds light on a usually invisiblesubject, the home-based worker, and should be ofinterest to those organising in the industry,feminist scholars, and industry policy analysts.

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