Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
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| Autore: |
Mitter Swasti
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| Titolo: |
Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.4091724 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women |
| Altri autori: |
RowbothamSheila
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women Encounter Technology |
| ISBN: | 0-203-20861-7 |
| 0-203-28852-1 | |
| 1-280-03164-6 | |
| 1-134-79951-9 | |
| 1-134-79950-0 | |
| 9786610031641 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816423803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development