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Case studies and policy perspectives : technology and women's employment / / Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise A. Tilly, editors ; Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1987 |
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9786610221431 |
9781280221439 |
1280221437 |
9780309554985 |
0309554985 |
9780585261553 |
0585261555 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (456 p.) |
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Collana |
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Computer chips and paper clips ; ; v.2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HartmannHeidi I |
KrautRobert E |
TillyLouise |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Microelectronics - Social aspects |
Office practice - Automation |
Women white collar workers - Effect of technological innovations on |
Women - Employment - Government policy - United States |
Women - Employment |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Computer Chips and Paper Clips""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CONTENTS, VOLUME I""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I OVERVIEW""; ""Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives""; ""THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN""; ""OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY""; ""POLICY PERSPECTIVES""; ""Framing the Issues""; ""Are Women Workers at Risk?""; ""Banking and Finance""; |
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""Hospitals and Health Care""; ""POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Full Employment""; ""Continued R&D""; ""Strengthened Education and Retraining""; ""A National Jobs and Education Program"" |
""Continued EEO Enforcement""""Child Care""; ""A CONCLUDING NOTE""; ""References""; ""PART II CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN WORKERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY""; ""The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry""; ""THE PACE OF DIFFUSION AND THE NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS""; ""Underwriting and Claims Support Systems""; ""Administrative/Clerical, Decision Support, and Agency Systems""; ""EFFECTS OF AUTOMATION ON THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE WORK FORCE""; ""CHANGES IN THE NATURE OF WORK: THE VIEW FROM THE SHOP FLOOR""; ""WOMEN AND MINORITY WORKERS"" |
""Effects of Automation on the Female Work Force""""Effects of Automation on Minority Workers""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; """"Machines Instead of Clerks"": Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950""; ""SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT, THE COST ACCOUNTING REVOLUTION, AND THE ACCOUNTANT""; ""OFFICE MACHINES AND THEIR HISTORY""; ""MECHANIZATION, FEMINIZATION, AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT""; ""WOMEN OFFICE WORKERS: HOW MANY IN WHAT JOBS?""; ""STRATIFICATION IN THE OFFICE""; ""Marital Status, Class, and Race and Ethnicity""; ""Wages and Clerical Work""; ""References"" |
""New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary""""THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE SECRETARY""; ""PATRIMONY IN TRADITIONAL SECRETARIAL WORK""; ""Traditional Secretarial Tasks""; ""Rewards and Career Mobility""; ""CHANGES IN THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN TO SECRETARIAL JOBS: RISING EXPECTATIONS AND DECLINING SATISFACTION""; ""THE NEW OFFICE ENVIRONMENT""; ""Word Processing: The Core Technology""; ""Secretarial Sharing and Minipools: New Staffing Ratios in the Automated Office""; ""The Shared Secretary""; ""The Minipool Secretary"" |
""THE PERSISTENCE OF PATRIMONY IN THE NEW OFFICE""""The New Tasks""; ""Career Opportunities""; ""Compensation and Skills""; ""Wages and Upskilling""; ""Other Variables Affecting Change""; ""Office Size""; ""Industrial Variation""; ""Resources and Wealth of Office""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; ""Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women in Computer-Related Occupations and High-Tech Industries""; ""COMPUTER-RELATED OCCUPATIONS""; ""Descriptions of Occupations""; ""Engineers""; ""Computer Specialists""; ""Engineering and Science Technicians""; ""Computer Operators"" |
""Data-Entry Operators"" |
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