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New Technology, Work and Employment, vol.25, no.1, pp.49-62, 2010 (SSCI)
The study indicates that in terms of the 'information poor' home-based women workers the opportunity provided by ICT to create formal employment for those who have no professional training or skills is very limited. ICT can be of benefit to the information poor if it is used to generate 'solidaristic' practices in order to combat labour exploitation by the subcontractors. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.