演講稿： Feminist scholars have long re ∞ gdzed the conaided nature ofwomen's relationship to work anddIe home,characterized by competing demands foz women's time and attention and competing desires fbr professionaland personal satisfaction.
This paper examines four inter-related perspectives on a fbminist political economy oflabour and communication,organized around responses to the converging W@rids ofwork and home.In doing so,it dmws into the orbit ofcommunication studies an area ofresearch,fbminisrn,that is typically lea on the borders ofthe field.It does so by 個 king up a topic,labour, 也 at is itselftypically sequestered on the margins.Allfb 叮 pempectives take seriously the need to build connections between political economy and fbminist research,and all fbur recognize the importance ofthe communication, infbnnation and knowledge arena as a substantive base for explodng that relationship.
The Erst section ofthe paper discusses recent scholarship on women's unpaid work in the home.It identifles home and work as sepm3te categories ofanalysis,but shows how capitalism COInmodifies the home by promoting the diEW that the value of what takes place within it depends on the vaiue oftheproduc 包 add services thatEll it.
The second perspective concd 甘 ates on the expansion ofthe workplace into the home,fbcusing on the computer industry in Califbrnia's Silicon Valley.h this view, home work is not domestic labour ofthe unpaid home work 仗 ,but the wage labour of women who tum their homes into extensions ofa hctory or call centre-
The third perspective sees the erosion ofboth categories as home and work become so inter-penetrated 也 atdley lose what independent value remains.As work and play become increasingly placeless,the nature ofboth is called into question.
The fInal perspective draws on Mosco and Mckerchefs current research on iabourorganizations,examininghowwomen arebeing integrated inthe labour movement in Nodh America;It asbwhether women cm End a home in the “ house of labour-,,
The paper concludes by suggesting that communication studies ofrb-s a substantive base fbr exploring the relationships among political economic and feminist mmMch and for 只 tudving labour in the communication industries.
