Home-based self-employed workers (n=46, including 35 women) viewed home work as a valuable nontraditional option, especially mothers who combined work and child care. Family-work conflicts and economic issues sometimes replicated negative, exploitative conditions of traditional workplaces. Gender, family status, resources, race/ethnicity, and…

Telephone survey of 2,592 people found that their sense of personal control was positively affected by nonroutine, autonomous, fulfilling, or nonisolated work. Women's low personal control was attributed to overrepresentation in part-time work and homemaking. Homemakers reported more autonomy than did paid workers; female paid workers performed…

Compares women defining themselves as retired with those defining themselves as housewives despite having worked outside the home. Examined variables are (1) work continuity, (2) occupation type, (3) work satisfaction, (4) number of years worked, (5) quitting age, and (6) full- versus part-time employment. (Author/CH)