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Excerpt from Family Economics Review, 1992, Vol. 5: No. 3 This study examined the nature of home - based work, characteristics of home - based workers, and their assess ment of their work. Most home-based workers were married, middle age, had at least a high school education, and lived in towns or cities with a population of or more. Nevertheless, home based workers were a heterogeneous group and included women with and without children, and older and younger people. Home-based workers were likely to own their own business and work 30 or more hours per week. They pursued a variety of occupations includ ing marketing and sales, contracting, mechanical trades and transportation, and services. Most home-based workers were satisfied with their employment and had a positive attitude toward home-based work and its future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.