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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823632903321

Titolo

Age, gender, and work [[electronic resource] ] : small information technology firms in the new economy / / edited by Julie Ann McMullin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver [B.C.], : UBC Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-24556-6

9786613245564

0-7748-1973-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McMullinJulie Ann <1965->

Disciplina

331.11/91004

Soggetti

Information services industry - Employees

Small business

Age and employment

Sex role in the work environment

Women computer industry employees

Corporate culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gender, age and work in the new economy / Julie McMullin and Heather Dryburgh -- Methods / Emily Jovic, Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau -- Firms as "gender regimes" : the experiences of women in IT workplaces / Gillian Ranson and Heather Dryburgh -- Variants of masculinity within masculinist IT workplace regimes / Tammy Duerden Comeau and Candace L. Kemp -- Negotiating work and family in the IT industry / Ingrid Arnet Connidis and Candace L. Kemp -- Generational and age discourse in IT firms / Julie McMullin, Emily Jovic and Tammy Duerden Comeau -- Aging and age discrimination in IT firms / Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau -- Conclusion : inequality regimes and new economy work / Emily Jovic and Julie McMullin.