Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Swasti. Mitter
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 1997.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (375 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction; Information technology and working women's demands; Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens?; Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles; Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women; Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia. - Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transitionComputerization and women's employment in India's banking sector; Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia; Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil; Something old, something new, something borrowed The electronics industry in Calcutta; Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion?; Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience. - Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment; Afterword; Index. - This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
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| ISBN | 0-203-20861-7. - 0-203-28852-1. - 1-134-79950-0. - 1-134-79951-9. - 1-280-03164-6. - 9786610031641
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