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Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic history, and especially in the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers.

"U.S. Government Printing Office : 1994-515-032/03025". ; "PS 024 293". (ERIC online document designator). ; "ED 395 702". (ERIC online document designator). ; "This guide is specifically designed to assist the home-based supervisor in carrying out her or his roles and responsibilities while supporting the home visitor, who is key to the implementation of the home-based option." -- (Source: p.1) ; Bibliography : Selected Supervision Topics (p.B1 - B2). ; Mode of access: Internet.

Purpose: This article aims to analyze individual-, organizational- and country-level factors that determine the use of home-based telework across Europe according to the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the technology–organization–environment model. Design/methodology/approach: To examine the impact of individual-, organizational- and country-level factors on telework, multilevel models are estimated to prevent problems derived from biased standard errors when micro- and macro-level data are combined. Findings: The main findings show that, according to the usefulness side of the TAM, employees with family responsibilities, those that live away from their work and highly qualified workers use more home-based telework. Additionally, and according to the ease of use side of the TAM, empowerment in firms facilitates home-based telework. At the country level, lower power distance, individualism and femininity, better telework regulations and technology developments are also facilitators of home-based telework. Research limitations/implications: The study is limited by the cross-sectional nature of the data. This prevents the estimation of causal effects. Additional research would benefit from the use of panel data and from a more detailed analysis of the effects of country dimensions. Practical implications: From an applied perspective, politics related to cultural dimensions are suggested to stimulate home-based telework. Originality/value: The research contributes to previous literature by: (1) considering a large sample to conduct an empirical analysis of the use of home-based telework across Europe, (2) including micro and macro factors, (3) providing a theoretical framework to explain home-based telework, (4) applying a rigorous definition of home-based telework and (5) focusing on employees who are able to adopt home-based telework. ; The authors wish to thank Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) for financing provided (ECO2017-86305-C4-4-R) and (ECO2017-86054-C3-2-R).

Home-based businesses are a 'hidden engine' that are poorly understood and inadequately supported, claim Calvin Wang, Elizabeth A. Walker, Janice Redmond and John Breen. They undertook research to gain more insight into this sector. Continuous economic activity is vital to Australia and the main driver for the past 20 years has been small business, often referred to by politicians as the 'engine room' of the economy. However, little is known about those businesses that operate from a home-base, even though these represent the largest cohort both within the small business sector and the wider business community. This is potentially an economic, regulatory and even political problem especially if home-based businesses (HBBs) continue to remain largely 'hidden'. Individually, HBBs make important contributions to economic activity in terms of job creation, wealth generation, business investment, the provision of goods and services and the servicing of local, national and international markets. There are well over one million Australians operating in excess of 850,000 home-based businesses. They include, but are not limited to, accountants and architects, web developers, photographers, mobile mechanics, pet boarders, bed and breakfast operators, freight movers, electricians, plumbers and painters. Collectively, HBBs provide important employment opportunities, not just for operators in the form of self-employment, but also family members and staff. Localised businesses consolidate social connectivity for people, making it possible for them to shop and socialise close to where they live and work. As a result, money stays in local communities and this potentially fosters a healthy local economy through wealth and further job creation. These benefits make HBBs particularly important as key drivers of both economic and community sustainability in rural and regional areas. This paper shows that the sector has real potential for growth and greater attention needs to be paid to it in respect of policies, programs and strategies to facilitate the growth of the sector, particularly at a local government level. Given the ease of establishing a business in the home and the lesser risks involved (both business and personal), HBBs provide important opportunities for entrepreneurial Australians to 'give it a go' and in so doing, to further drive economic growth and development.

The Child Treatment Research Unit (CTRU) based in the School of Social Work at Leicester University has, as its name implies, service, treatment and training functions. It has accumulated several years' experience of behavioural interventions on the Triadic Model with problem children and their families. The triadic approach—using behaviour modification in home settings—is designed to counter the apparent illogicality in removing a child from the setting in which the problem occurs, of attempting to modify his behaviour in isolation from those who may instigate and reinforce a large part of it and then returning him to the unchanged context in which the problems flourished. A method, behavioural casework, based upon behaviour modification and self-help principles, is described with regard to conduct problems. Procedures as used in the Unit, but more particularly in the natural or foster home-setting, are detailed and the results (which are very encouraging) tabulated.

Half-Title Page -- Home-Based Services for Troubled Children -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Home-Based Services for Troubled Children -- l. Family Preservation Services in Context: Origins, Practices, and Current Issues Kathleen Wells -- 2. Homebuilders: Helping Families Help Themselves Jill Kinney and Kelly Dittmar -- 3. Network Interventions with High-Risk Youth and Families Throughout the Continuum of Care Elizabeth M. Tracy, ]ames K. Whittaker, Francis Boylan, Paul Neitman, and Edward Overstreet