This paper theorises the position of women footwear homeworkers through the lens of global production networks. Using data collected in India during 2011 to 2014, it illustrates the asymmetry of power between network actors, and attests to the poverty, invisibility and lack of acknowledgement...

The chapter compares situationally different types of homework in the garment and footwear sectors in Australia and India. The two categories of informal homework exist in a highly gender segmented workforce that experiences regulation distance. The conceptual tool of invisibilization is used to...

Ntroduction: homework and gender justice -- Understanding homework and homeworkers -- The invisibilisation of homework -- Extension of labour regulation to homeworkers -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR): improving homeworkers recognition? -- The logic of the supply chain: barriers and...