This book focuses on the causes and consequences of paid white-collar work in the home, including work that is professional, managerial, clerical, technical, and sales. It is directed to audiences concerned with both the policy issues and the research challenges reused by working at home.

Kathleen E. Christensen is director of the National Project on Home-Based Work and associate professor of environmental psychology at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Women and Home-Based Work: The Unspoken Contract (1988) and of numerous articles on contingent work and the changing structure of the workforce.