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Article: Home-based workers: data from the 1990 Census of Population.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
- Author:
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Data from the Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 Census of Population show that home-based workers are more likely than onsite workers to be self-employed, to live in rural areas, to work nonstandard hours, to be women, to be white, and to work in service industries and occupations
As communication and computer technology continue to advance, the facility with which people can engage in paid work at home, rather than traveling to an office or factory, has become part of the folklore of the contemporary American economy. In a dramatic contrast to the changes stimulated by the industrial revolution, which drove workers out of the home and into the factory, the ...