{"product_id":"exploited-or-entrepreneurs-9783639145144","title":"Exploited or Entrepreneurs?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elissa Sutherland\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome-based workers are an ever increasing proportion of the Australian clothing industry's workforce. With decreasing tariff protections and increasing cheap imports of apparel into Australia, home-based workers offer both competitive labour costs, but most importantly, quick turnaround times. The media and many academic studies, focus on this supply-side story of how home-based workers underpin a fundamentally transforming industry. This book turns our attention to the lives of the (mostly) migrant women who perform this work. Focusing on a newly collectivising group of women entrepreneurs and employees who do industrial sewing in their homes, this study documents a progressive policy shift that occurred in Sydney, Australia. The work grapples with the complexities of mounting a case for state endorsed minimum wage and condition protections without an over-reliance on victimhood storylines. This analysis sheds light on a usually invisible subject, the home-based worker, and should be of interest to those organising in the industry, feminist scholars, and industry policy analysts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VDM Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610216448151,"sku":"9783639145144","price":7319.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783639145144.webp?v=1775062597","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exploited-or-entrepreneurs-9783639145144","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}