This thesis examines the phenomenon of female home-based work in Italy during the 1970s from a gender history perspective, focusing on working conditions, representations, rights, and the ways in which women articulated their experiences. Situated between the domestic sphere and production, home-based work has historically occupied a marginal and invisible position, despite playing a significant economic and productive role, particularly in sectors with a strong female presence. Through engagement with the historiography of labor and gender and the analysis of inquiries, testimonies, and feminist magazines, the study reconstructs the main features of home-based work in the 1970s, paying particular attention to the social profiles of women workers, mechanisms of exploitation, and feminist interpretations of the phenomenon. In this way, home-based work emerges as a historical category of gender that is also useful for critically examining contemporary transformations in women’s work.
La tesi analizza il fenomeno del lavoro a domicilio femminile nell’Italia degli anni Settanta da una prospettiva di storia di genere, esaminando le condizioni materiali di lavoro, le rappresentazioni, i diritti e le modalità di presa di parola delle donne coinvolte. Collocandosi tra lo spazio domestico e la produzione, il lavoro a domicilio ha storicamente occupato una posizione marginale e invisibile, pur rivestendo un ruolo rilevante sul piano economico e produttivo, soprattutto nei settori con una maggiore presenza femminile. Attraverso il confronto con la storiografia sul lavoro e sul genere e l’analisi di inchieste, testimonianze e riviste femministe, la ricerca ricostruisce le caratteristiche del lavoro a domicilio negli anni Settanta, soffermandosi sui profili sociali delle lavoranti, sui meccanismi di sfruttamento e sull’elaborazione femminista del fenomeno. In questo modo, il lavoro a domicilio emerge come una categoria storica di genere utile per considerare criticamente le trasformazioni attuali del lavoro femminile.
Produrre senza fabbrica. Lavoro a domicilio e genere negli anni Settanta in Italia.
ANCONA, FRANCESCA ROMANA
2025/2026
Abstract
This thesis examines the phenomenon of female home-based work in Italy during the 1970s from a gender history perspective, focusing on working conditions, representations, rights, and the ways in which women articulated their experiences. Situated between the domestic sphere and production, home-based work has historically occupied a marginal and invisible position, despite playing a significant economic and productive role, particularly in sectors with a strong female presence. Through engagement with the historiography of labor and gender and the analysis of inquiries, testimonies, and feminist magazines, the study reconstructs the main features of home-based work in the 1970s, paying particular attention to the social profiles of women workers, mechanisms of exploitation, and feminist interpretations of the phenomenon. In this way, home-based work emerges as a historical category of gender that is also useful for critically examining contemporary transformations in women’s work.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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