Female Homeworkers Alienation Under Putting Out System

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200214.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender gap, women worker, fishery industries, Pasuruan-Indonesia

Abstract

This research aimed to describe the working of POS house workers and the alienation and bias they suffer. The Putting Out System (POS) workers, also commonly known as home workers, is a type of occupation in the informal sector dominated by women in Indonesia. This research was conducted using qualitative method, where the choosing of informants using purposive sampling method. The research was analyzed using Karl Marx’s theory of alienation. Research was conducted in Malang, East Java Province, Indonesia as one of pilot project involving the highest number of POS workers in Indonesia. The informants of this research were 23 women coming from four different house works, who are sequin worker, garlic peeler, dressmaker, and reading stick cutter (a stick used in Qur’an reading). Based on the research results, conclusions about POS house workers are as follow: a) Indonesian women chose to become POS house worker in order to support their family without having to neglect their domestic duties, b) considering the process of the work, there was imbalance between the number of hours spent for working and the amount of wage obtained by these female house workers, and c) POS house works create alienation against women. Such situation is a condition that they have to accept because they rely on the job that still rare to research in Indonesia. Among the common issues faced by the POS workers in Indonesia is the payment which is below the standard wage and lower compared to the amount of work tackled.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anggaunitakiranantika
AU  - Theola Zevana Putri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/18
TI  - Female Homeworkers Alienation Under Putting Out System
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Studies and Environmental Issues (ICOSSEI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 202
EP  - 208
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200214.035
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